Health Care Assistant

The Health Center Assistant's role at Trust Women may include assisting physicians, nurses, and patients before, during, and after abortion and other procedures, preparing tissue specimens for physician review, handling and sterilizing all surgical instruments, and performing routine tests in accordance with CLIA standards.

Essential Functions (included But Not Limited To)

• Reviews medical history, takes and documents vital signs, and communicates urgent or abnormal results to the clinician.
• Processes laboratory specimens, including blood and urine samples; conducts tests according to CLIA and OSHA standards and regulations.
• Rooms and ensures the safety of patients during an abortion and other procedures, assists the physician with sterile field set-up, provides ultrasound guidance for procedures, and assists the physician with tissue review and processing.
• Sterile processing – decontaminating and sterilizing surgical instruments, maintaining logs and inventory of sterile instruments.
• Demonstrates self-motivation and ability to work independently within a fast-paced environment.
• Provides physical and emotional support to patients – effectively manages patient anxieties and fears.
• Patient Education
• Infection control: Mask Use, Required Vaccination, and maintaining a clean work environment.
• Maintains office inventory, anticipates the need for supplies and essential items, and communicates.
• Complies with local, state, and federal regulations, including but not limited to privacy laws, Child and Minor Abuse reporting, etc.
• Adhere to Trust Women’s non-discrimination policies.
• Effectively interact with co-workers and patients with diverse ethnic backgrounds, religious views, political affiliations, cultural backgrounds, lifestyles, and sexual orientations, and treat individuals with respect and dignity

Requirements

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Pro-abortion, 2SLGBQIA+ inclusive, body-positive, disability-inclusive.
• COVID-19 vaccinated or willing to obtain within 4 weeks of hire.
• Excellent reading and comprehension skills.
• Ability to work flexible hours, including occasional weekends and evenings.
• Work experience and/or training in the healthcare field preferred.
• Demonstrate proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Email.
• Effectively prioritize multiple duties.
• Ability to work effectively in a team, creating collaborative relationships with others.
• Demonstrate self-motivation and the ability to work independently.
• Prior use of the Electronic Health Records system is preferred.
• Excellent computer and phone skills.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, ideally in a healthcare setting.
• Able to work both autonomously and collaboratively within a healthcare environment.
• Able to communicate effectively with patients and all health care team members.
• Medical Assistant/Certified Nurse Assistant/Surgical Tech certification preferred.
• Reproductive health care experience preferred.
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred but not required.

Language Skills

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from staff, managers, clinicians, patients, and the general public.
• Bilingual fluency in written and oral
• Spanish and English are preferred but not required.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret technical instructions in mathematical form.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.