Watershed Planning Project Manager

About The Position

Looking for rewarding, flexible, temporary work in the medical field? You've found it! Riverside County's Medical Assignment Program (MAP) offers a variety of staffing alternatives for the placement of qualified medical personnel at Mental Health, Riverside County Regional Medical Center, and Public Health Departments from Indio to Corona. Offering temporary or per diem assignments that will exceed your expectations, our in-house Medical Assignment Program allows healthcare professionals to work in a variety of settings with scheduling options that fit anyone's active lifestyle.

Responsibilities

• Greets clients/patients at reception desk or counter; assists them in completing necessary documents and applications, answering routine questions and providing information;
• Interviews clients/patients to gather basic health related information, such as health status, living conditions, diet, residency, mobility, parenting skills, health care needs, etc.;
• Registers clients/patients using related computer information at time of appointment;
• Maintains medical charts and schedules appointments for staff;
• Performs routine medical data clerical tasks, typing, personal computer data input, filing, answering phones, etc.;
• Inventories supply needs and helps obtain medical and office supplies;
• Prepares patients for examination, including positioning, draping, shaving, and disinfecting treatment sites;
• Collections and records patient data including height, weight, temperature, pulse, respiration rate, blood pressure, and basic information about present and previous conditions;
• Provides patient information and instructions as directed by medical staff;
• Performs routine clinical procedures: taking vital signs, administering medications (oral, sublingual, topical, vaginal, rectal, inhalation) or providing a single dose to a patient for self-administration; applying and removing bandages and dressings; applying orthopedic appliances; removing casts and splints; selecting and adjusting crutches, instructing on proper crutch use; performing simple or automated visual testing, obtaining, but not interpreting, results; removing sutures or staples from superficial incisions or lacerations; performing phlebotomy for blood draw or transfusion, as directed.

Requirements

• Experience: Six months performing basic administrative or clinical duties in a physician's or dental office, hospital, health center, etc. is preferred.
• Knowledge: The causes and treatment of medical and/or public health problems and the problems facing the educationally and economically disadvantaged; basic patient care and/or administrative techniques.
• Ability: Communicate effectively orally and in writing; establish and maintain good relations with a wide range of social and ethnic groups as well as professional staff; obtain and record accurate medical information or perform routine clinical procedures, depending on assignment; follow and implement activities according to written standardized procedures; perform basic clerical tasks such as personal computer use, answer phones, filing etc.; the ability to speak fluently in a foreign language such as Spanish is a plus, depending on assignment.

Qualifications

• Education: Possession of a high school diploma, G.E.D. equivalency or high school proficiency certificate.
• Licenses/Certificates: Possession of a valid Medical Assistant certificate in basic, administrative (for front office assignments) or clinical (for clinical assignments) professional specialties acquired from a school recognized by the American Association of Medical Assistants or American Society for Medical Technology. Possession of a valid certification in Venipuncture. Possession of a valid certification in Basic Cardiac Life Support/Cardio-Respiratory Resuscitation (BCLS/CPR).

Skills

• Basic patient care and/or administrative techniques.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to establish and maintain good relations with a wide range of social and ethnic groups as well as professional staff.
• Ability to perform routine clinical procedures, depending on assignment.
• Ability to follow and implement activities according to written standardized procedures.
• Ability to perform basic clerical tasks such as personal computer use, answer phones, filing etc.
• The ability to speak fluently in a foreign language such as Spanish is a plus, depending on assignment.

Benefits

• A choice of different medical, dental and visions plan are available to elect.
• The County provides a Flexible Benefit Credit contribution as governed by the applicable LIUNA Memorandum of Understanding to contribute towards the cost of these plans.

Pay

• Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

• Scheduling options that fit anyone's active lifestyle.