Medical Assistant -Health Center, Psychiatry Mentor, OH

Medical Assistant -Health Center, Psychiatry Crossroads Health , a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with facilities located in Mentor, Painesville, and Cleveland, serves Northeast Ohio communities with comprehensive behavioral and primary integrated healthcare, early childhood services, extended housing and recovery services—no matter one’s ability to pay. Our mission is to provide hope, healing, and healthcare to everyone. ***Full time hours with no evenings, weekends or holidays!*** Our Health Center team is currently searching for a pleasant, personable, and empathetic individual for the position of Integrated Health Medical Assistant (MA) for our Integrated Health office. This MA will be responsible for clinical support for our prescribers and nurses within the clinic for the wellbeing of our patients. This highly visible role will be providing services in person as well as over the phone/fax/letters/emails. In a trauma-informed manner, under the delegation of a licensed provider, the MA will collect patient data, vital signs, perform medication reconciliation, perform patient check-out, how the patient is managing the treatment plan and, document in the electronic health record. More specifically, the MA will be responsible for: Collecting and updating patient registration, vital signs and other related information for our electronic health record. Coordinating services with internal and external providers. Providing patient education as necessary. Performing medication administration including vaccines and other injections, urine collection and toxicology screens, routine lab draws/phlebotomy. Performing all treatments and procedures specific to health care services. Position Requirements: High school diploma/GED required. Current Medical Assistant diploma, and/or certification from accredited Medical Assistant program required. Minimum of 3 years experience as a Medical Assistant. Health Clinic experience strongly preferred. Experience with medication administration including injections. Demonstrated ability providing patient education. Ability to multitask in a fast-paced medical setting Activity level: Ability to frequently sit in a stationary position for extended periods of time. Ability to frequently stand for extended periods of time. Ability to frequently use hands/fingers to type on computer keyboard and operate general office equipment, such as phone and copier. Ability to occasionally ascend/descend stairs as necessary. Ability to occasionally drive. Our organization is committed to equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate against employees or applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, gender/sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, uniform service member status, genetic information, or any other status protected by law. We are a drug free work environment and all new hires are required to pass a 10 panel drug screen which includes screening of THC. Voluntary Self-Identification For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey.Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiringprocess or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in aconfidential file. As set forth in Crossroads Health ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law. If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows: A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability. 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