What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Assistant position at Cooley Dickinson Medical Group?
About Us
The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high-quality, low-cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring healthcare closer to patients while lowering total healthcare costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.
Urgent care, sometimes known as walk-in care, fast care, or express care, is a convenient option for patients 18 months and older who require timely medical care, but the situation is not an emergency. Because patients typically come to us when they aren't feeling their best, it is incredibly important to us that our staff members strive to provide the compassion and emotional support our patients need.
Our Urgent Care Center is located at 170 University Drive, Amherst, MA 01002. The operating hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm and Saturday & Sunday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. We are open on major holidays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm but closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a full-time, 40-hour Medical Assistant to join our team! The ideal schedule will be Monday-Friday 7:30 am- 4:00 pm. Since Urgent Care is a 7-day-per-week operation that delivers care days, evenings, weekends, and holidays, we request staff to be flexible with scheduling needs and take on weekend/holiday coverage as needed. As a small but strong team of 1-2 providers and 2-3 support staff, our Medical Assistants get the opportunity to work autonomously to the top of their education/certification while also functioning as part of a collaborative team.
We do our best to keep all employees in their assigned locations; however, you may also be asked to float to other locations for training/precepting purposes or during times of staffing shortages/other extenuating circumstances (for cross-coverage purposes). The other locations are: Northampton, Southampton, or Greenfield, MA.
Responsibilities:
- Direct patient care duties
- Obtain vital signs and blood specimens
- Assist providers in performing invasive and non-invasive procedures
- Perform point-of-care testing on patients
Indirect patient care duties:
- Check-in and register patients
- Process referrals
- Order and stock clinical supplies and patient education materials
- Transport patients and specimens as needed
- Monitor the environment of care
- Perform administrative tasks as needed
This position is part of the 1199SEIU Bargaining Unit at Cooley Dickinson Hospital.
Qualifications
Education
- High School Diploma or Equivalent required
Experience
- One (1) year technical/vocational training school required
- One (1) to three (3) years’ experience as a medical assistant or EMT-B certification required
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- One (1) year technical/vocational training school program or one (1) to three (3) years’ experience as a medical assistant or EMT-B certification required.
The ideal candidate profile is an experienced, adaptable Medical Assistant who is confident in their clinical abilities and genuinely enjoys variety! We hope our new employee holds organizational skills with attention to detail, thoroughness, practical decision-making, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to teamwork. We prefer our Medical Assistants to have the national MA certification from CMA, AAMA, RMA, CNMA, or CCMA.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $20.32 - $26.82 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 403(b)
- 403(b) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Free parking
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
- Urgent Care
Schedule:
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Rotating weekends
Application Question(s):
- Have you completed a formal Medical Assistant training course?
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Experience:
- Medical Assistant: 1 year (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Amherst, MA 01002 (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $20 - $27