Medical Assistant

Project Renewal is a leading non-profit organization with the mission of building supportive communities where people achieve dignity and independence, renewing their lives with health, homes, and jobs. Our comprehensive and integrated 24/7 programs are designed to offer the holistic care our clients need. With a staff of 950+ and an annual budget of $140 million, Project Renewal is one of the larger social service nonprofits in New York City.

Title: Medical Assistant

Program:Primary Care Clinic

Schedule: Full-time 35 hours/week. Monday - Friday

Location: Mobile Medical Van covering multiple sites across New York City

Salary: $42,000

Position Overview:

Medical assistants are embedded in Primary Care Clinics to provide on-site nursing services under the direction of the Assistant Director of Nursing, Primary Care, and the Deputy/ Director of Nursing Operations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

The essential duties of the Medical Assistant include but are not limited to the following activities:

• Responsible for obtaining vital signs including pain screen and BMI

• Perform procedures including, but not limited to, EKG’s, Hearing and Vision tests, Blood Glucose, etc.

• Assist providers with examinations and chaperoning

• Perform phlebotomy, lab specimen and CLIA Waive testing processing

• Prepare and organize supplies in examination rooms. This includes preparing

examination table, ensuring that supplies are maintained in an organized manner in cabinets, and ensuring that all necessary instruments and supplies are readily available for practitioner’s use

• Conducts template screenings on all patients (depression screening, sexual health, alcohol, drug, tobacco screenings

• Participates in weekly clinical meetings with medical staff and with shelter case

management & administrative staff

• Travel to cover locations as necessary for coverage

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Medical Assistant Certification

• Working with homeless individuals preferred

• Must have excellent oral and listening skills

• Must have the ability to interface with clients as well as all levels of staff

• Knowledge Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel preferred

• Electronic medical record experience preferred

Project Renewal is an equal opportunity employer. Its long-standing policy has been to embrace the equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion or creed, gender (see separately issued Gender Discrimination policy for more detail), physical or mental disability, age (18 and over), military status, arrest record, marital status, domestic partnership status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking, unemployment status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.