What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinic Medical Assistant (MA-C) - Internal & Adult Medicine - Full Time (40 hours/week) position at Kittitas Valley Healthcare?
Company Description
KVH is an integrated healthcare delivery system that includes 24-hour emergency care, inpatient, and outpatient hospital services through KVH Hospital. Clinics and services provided include family medicine, internal medicine, a geriatric nurse practitioner program, home health and hospice, physical therapy, orthopedics, general surgery, pediatrics, women’s health, and urgent care.
Kittitas Valley Healthcare expects all employees to uphold our Vision & Mission. The KVH Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles can be found at http://www.kvhealthcare.org/mission-and-vision.
KVH puts ‘employee care’ high on the priority list, with health benefits like low cost medical, dental, and vision insurance and a robust employee wellness program. KVH offers company contribution toward your choice of medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including coverage available for spouses/ domestic partners, and dependent children. KVH believes that continuing education is critical to our mission and vision. We have implemented many educational programs such as the Medical Assistant Apprenticeship program and certification pay to encourage continuing education. We want our employees to know they are valued. One of the ways we show this is by quickly vesting employees, making them pension eligible after just one year of part-time status. To view more details about the comprehensive benefits package we offer to eligible employees visit our website -
Benefits - KV Healthcare
www.kvhealthcare.org
Job Description
The Clinic Medical Assistant (CMA) is responsible for procedures necessary to support the provider to whom they are assigned with the goal of providing excellent patient care. Daily tasks include rooming patients, obtaining vital signs, assisting with medical procedures, administering injections and medications, verifying and updating patient medical records for completeness, refilling medications, notifying patients of test results, and other assigned duties within the CMA scope of practice. This position may float to support other KVH clinics.
Starting out, this role will primarily be responsible for medication refills, and will be re-evaluated at 6 months to determine primary responsibilities at that time.
Qualifications
What is required...
- Graduate of an accredited Certified Medical Assistant program & currently licensed in the State of Washington.
- Current BLS card for Healthcare Provider (maintenance required)
- Previous exposure to an Electronic Medical Records system
What is preferred...
- Certified as Bilingual; English/Spanish
- Previous experience working as a Medical Assistant
- Certificate Program in Geriatrics from the American Association of Medical Assistants
Additional Information
Wage: Wage range currently starts at $21.28/hour and goes up to $32.25/hour. Actual wage will be based on years' of applicable experience.
FTE: 1.0 (40 hours/week)
Benefits: This position is benefits eligible
Union Status: This is a non-union covered position
Salary : $21 - $32
