Medical Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Job Title: Medical Assistant
Location: Midtown Charlotte 
Job Type: Full-Time; Day Shift w/ Weekend Rotations 

About Avance Care:

Avance Care is one of North Carolina's largest independent primary care networks, with over 35 clinics across the Raleigh/Durham, Charlotte, and Wilmington regions. By integrating traditional medicine with on-site behavioral health and nutrition services, we deliver a highly collaborative, holistic approach to community wellness. We are widely recognized as an innovative and supportive employer that actively eliminates healthcare burnout by offering strong benefits, teamwork culture, and flexible scheduling that protects your work-life balance!  

Why Work for Avance Care?

• 1-to-1 Provider Partnership: Work side-by-side with one primary provider to build a seamless, and respectful daily workflow.
• Team-Based Setting: Cohesive teamwork mitigates individual clinical burdens and optimizes patient’s and team member’s safety.
• Integrated Health Model: Delivers superior patient outcomes by seamlessly combining primary care, behavioral health, and nutritional services under one roof to treat patient’s whole health.
• Fast-Acting Benefits: Focused on keeping you healthy and secure with comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage on the 1st of the month, after just 30 days of employment.
• Financial Well-being: Empowers our team members with a competitive salary. Plus, access to a matching 401(k), short/long-term disability, HSA, and Dependent Care FSA accounts.

Your Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Patient & Front Office Care: Meet and greet patients, triage calls, handle patient’s follow-ups, log Telephone Encounters (TEs), and protect data privacy under strict HIPAA laws.
• Rooming & Intake: Escort patients to rooms, record vital signs, document allergies, note chief complaints and medication changes.
• Direct Clinical Care: Administer medications through multiple routes, assist with vaccinations and injections responsibilities. Aid with medication refills to pharmacies along with prior authorizations.
• Labs & Diagnostics: Perform venipunctures, collect and label specimens, execute EKGs, and various point-of-care testing (POCT).
• Clinical Procedures: Contribute in performing diverse in office procedures such as ear irrigation, spirometry, wound care, and surgical assisting.
• Room & Tool Upkeep: Sterilize, wrap, and autoclave surgical instruments. Order and stock supplies while auditing exam rooms for sanitization, and disposing biohazard materials.

What Are We Looking For?

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent required; Associate Degree in Medical Assisting, strongly preferred.
• Experience: 1 to 2 years of hands-on clinical experience, highly preferred.
• Credentials: Active certification is strongly preferred (CMA, CCMA, RMA, or EMT).
• Key Skills: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, strong technical/administrative adaptability, and a patient-centered mindset needed.

Ready to apply? Submit your application today and elevate your healthcare career with Avance Care!

Avance Care provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to religion, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, alienage or citizenship status, national origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, disability, veteran or military status, predisposing genetic characteristics or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.