What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Assistant position at Meridian Advanced Psychiatry?
Medical Assistant
Setting: Private Mental Health Clinic (The non-boring kind)
Reports to: Practice Manager (The pleasant kind)
Hours: Full-Time, Monday – Thursday, 7:30am-6:00pm
Medical Assistant Needed
Do you always have a smile on your face? Do you have a way of making people feel at ease and comfortable, even if you don't know them? Then we want to talk to you about our Medical Assistant position.
Our mental health practice needs a Medical Assistant to help us give our patients a 5-star experience all the time, every time!
How will you make a difference?
Your duties as a Medical Asssistant will include:
· Simple lab draws and point of care testing – This will be 10% of your job. The other 90% is described below.
Opportunities for additional training for:
· Mental Health Technician
· Making sure patients feel welcome as soon as they walk in the door
· Pleasantly answering questions and making appointments
· Using your friendliest phone voice to answer calls and take messages
· Assisting in opening and closing the office
· Understanding and respecting patient privacy laws
· Scheduling and confirming appointments
· Taking payments and applying them to patient accounts
· Understanding insurance and explaining benefits
· Back-office duties; rooming patients, taking vitals, ADHD testing, processing lab samples, and keeping the clinic flow moving.
· Other duties may include: prior authorizations, ordering medications, ordering medical supplies, taking meeting minutes, and more.
Why this job is more than a job
In mental health, we change people's lives. If you want a career where you can literally help the people in your community have better lives, this is the job for you.
Experience/Requirements Needed:
Education Requirement:
High School Diploma or equivalent required.
Graduate from an accredited Medical Assistant program.
If these sound like you, please apply!
- You can get along great with anybody.
- You're full of energy and people feel charged up just being around you.
- You appreciate other people's talents and love to work together to solve problems.
- You're famous for doing what you say you're going to do – no excuses!
- Your reputation for honesty and integrity is legendary.
- You don't know the meaning of "someone else's problem" or "that's not my job."
- You're always willing to jump in and help.
- You take pride and ownership in your work – whatever you do, you do it well.
- You are openly grateful to the people around you.
- You see yourself as an integral part of your team's success (because we will).
- You're always up for learning something new, and you master new skills quickly.
- You love to see other people happy and thriving, and you'll do whatever you can to help them get there.
Benefits
· Medical Insurance paid 100%
· Dental and Vision Insurance available
· Paid Time Off
· Holiday Pay
· Simple IRA contribution
About Us
Meridian Advanced Psychiatry (MAP) was founded by Nurse Practitioner Kyle Ronnau. MAP provides full service psychiatric medication management, including substance use disorder treatment or Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and ADHD with in-house objective testing.
We love to come to work every day because we love what we do and we've built an office culture that can't be beat. If you're looking to join a team that feels like a family, where your efforts will always be appreciated, and where you will be valued for the amazing person you are, apply now!
Check out our website: www.map-clinic.com
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $16.00 - $20.00 per hour
Expected hours: 38 – 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Medical Specialty:
- Addiction Medicine
- Psychiatry
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- No weekends
Work Location: In person
Salary : $16 - $20