Medical Assistant

Medical Assistant

Duration: 6-month contract Location: Phoenix, AZ 85006 Pay range: $15-17.20/hr. on W2

Project Description: The Medical Assistant supports Clinicians in the STI Clinic by providing basic health care services such as preparing patient rooms, performing venipuncture, specimen collection, and taking patient history to prepare the patients for evaluation by the provider in order to help prevent the spread of communicable diseases.

Skills Required:

• Prepares patients for their appointments by accompanying them to the examining room and facilitates the patient flow through the practice of anticipating patient and provider needs.
• Ensures exam rooms are clean, stocked and appropriately set up each day prior to rooming patients.
• Performs routine medical tasks of drawing blood, administering injections, specimen collection, and preparing patients for examinations and treatment.
• Assists the provider with examinations of patient and administering/ordering diagnostic tests, procedures and treatment.
• Provides basic patient care as directed by provider and as allowed by license, certification or registration.
• Documents patient care using electronic or other medical records systems and computer applications in accordance with regulatory requirements, quality initiatives, policies and procedures.
• Assists in patient education by providing informational handouts, an after visit summary, and/or treatment plan summary as instructed by the Clinician. Receives and records lab test results via telephone or computer and ensures that those results and related reports are with the patient's medical record at the time of patient's visit.

Skills Preferred:

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) skills.

Experience Required:

• One year of experience working in the medical field as a Medical Assistant, including venipuncture experience and experience administering vaccines or other injections.
• Experience in the use of electronic medical records.

Experience Preferred:

• Two or more years of experience working in the medical field as a Medical Assistant, including venipuncture experience and experience administering injections and/or vaccines.

Education Required:

• High school diploma or GED. Certificate of Completion as a Medical Assistant from an accredited Health Care Training Program.

Education Preferred:

• National Certification as a Medical Assistant

Additional Information:

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain a valid Arizona driver's license by the time of hire