Medical Assistant - Float at Family Care Center in Mesa, AZ

Description

IT’S MORE THAN A JOB. IT’S A CALLING.

At Family Care Center, we are on a mission to transform lives by elevating behavioral health care. Our journey began in 2016 when two U.S. Army Veterans founded Family Care Center to help service members, Veterans and their families. We continue that tradition today, caring for people of all ages across a broad range of conditions with nearly 30 outpatient clinics in communities across Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Tennessee and Texas.

If you'd like to work for one of the nation's fastest-growing behavioral health providers, collaborating with other committed team members and making a positive impact on your community, we look forward to hearing from you.

Transforming lives is our life’s work.

• CARING & SUPPORTIVE CULTURE: We support you so you can support our patients. Our positive environment is complemented by an engaging wellness program, volunteer events, team activities and more.
• UNPARALLELED GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES: We offer clear paths for career advancement at every level, fostering your professional development and personal growth.
• BALANCED LIFESTYLE: Achieve professional fulfillment while nurturing a healthy work-life balance, free from weekend or evening hours. We understand the importance of both professional fulfillment and personal well-being.
• COLLABORATIVE TEAM: Join forces with a diverse team of top-notch behavioral health professionals, support staff and empowering leadership. Together, we work towards transforming the lives of our patients.
• IMPRESSIVE RETENTION RATES: Our compassionate, welcoming approach has helped us earn a higher-than-average provider retention rate of 88%.
• Hourly compensation: $20.00 - $25.00, plus up to $4,000 in bonus opportunities.

Position Overview: Responsible for providing care for clinic patients under supervision of the physician or advanced provider. Assists providers and staff in coordinating patient care. Functions as primary liaison between patients, staff, pharmacy, and physician/advanced provider. Rooms patients, takes vital signs and inputs data into practice software. May perform TMS treatments under a physician’s supervision.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for escorting patients to exam rooms; interviewing patients; reviewing and documenting chief complaint, allergies, current medication, and any other pertinent prior fixed medical information.
• Measures and records vital signs, including weight, blood pressure, pulse and temperature.
• Communicates directly with patients as instructed by physician or advanced provider.
• Provides written prescriptions for patients and documents appropriately as directed by physician or advanced provider.
• Retrieves, reviews and uploads related reports, lab results, and other information into patients’ medical records before appointments for the providers to review.
• Triages and processes portal and phone messages, verifies emergency requests, refills, or other patient needs in coordination with the provider, and documents any medication reactions in patient’s chart.
• Schedules, reschedules or cancels follow-up appointments as necessary logging appropriately in the EMR.
• Performs injections and Point of Care tests (urine, oral pregnancy, drug testing) as directed by physician or advanced provider.
• Ensures logs and clinic checks are completed as required.
• Assists with front desk coverage and onboarding and training new staff.
• Travels between clinics and provides back-up/float coverage as needed, based on operational need and provider schedule.

Other Duties:

• Cross trains as a TMS tech and assists with coverage.
• Performs other duties as needed and assigned by supervisor.

Travel:

• Regularly travels throughout the assigned region for coverage. Occasionally may be asked to travel outside of their region.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Completion of formal training program as a medical assistant required.
• 1 year experience as a Medical Assistant preferred, Electronic Medical Record experience and health insurance preferred.
• RMA or CMA certification preferred
• BLS preferred
• Current driver’s license required

Location: Mesa Clinic and Travel to other Clinics in the region.

Family Care Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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