Bilingual Medical Assistant – Community Health Center
*temp, possible temp to hire
Location: Jackson Heights, NY
Pay: $23 – $25 DOE
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9-5:30
- 30 minute unpaid lunch break
- Late clinic hours Weds and Thurs
- candidates must work on late night a week
- can either work adjusted hours or take the overtime (9a-7p)
Position Summary :
Works as part of the Care Team; Responsible to ensure highest quality of patient care. Provides support to the Nursing staff and Medical Providers in addressing the health care needs of our patients.
Qualifications:
- High School diploma or GED required
- Completion of accredited Medical Assistant Program, Associate’s degree preferred.
- National Certification not required
- One (1) year full time Medical Assistant work experience preferred
- Possession of a current basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (BLS CPR) certificate required
- Must be comfortable with phlebotomy, biopsies, women’s health
- Ability to work both independently and in a team.
- Experience working with people living with HIV/AIDS preferred.
- Bilingual Spanish required
- Ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds in a multi-cultural setting required.
- Knowledge of eClinicalWorks EMR is preferred.
- Able to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends.
- Basic Knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Office, referral database.
Duties and Responsibilities include:
Direct Patient Care - Greets patients and brings them to the exam rooms and preps them for the medical provider
- Assists in the clinical care of patients including
- Doing biopsies, paps, HRA
- Phlebotomy, collection and processing of laboratory specimens
- Vaccine administration
- Vital sign collection, EKGs, Peak flow
QI/QA
Compliance
- Compliance with Infection Control policies and procedures
- Facilitates related services for health center patients as appropriate with respect to their confidentiality and privacy
Maintenance of Clinic Equipment and Supplies
- Operates and maintains autoclave
- Monitors the expiration of medical and laboratory supplies
- Monitors the temperature of vaccine and specimen refrigerators and freezers and takes appropriate actions during abnormal occurrences- e.g. abnormal temperature or electrical failure.
- Maintains temperature logs.
- Stocks examination rooms with supplies on a daily basis as needed
Collaboration
- Gathers medical information and reports to provider
- Interfaces with laboratories when necessary for patient care
- Ensures that lab results are available at the time of the visit
- Consults with medical providers at the beginning of each session/and or at a daily meeting to ensure optimum patient flow
- Informs providers when there are medication renewals; executes provider’s orders; Makes referrals for patients
- Participates in interdisciplinary meetings to help determine policies affecting clinical care
- Assists practitioners in the monitoring and maintaining of standards of care
- Performs routine clinical administrative operations including follow-up on abnormal labs, referrals, calling patients, mailing letters, and faxing
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