Bilingual Certified/Registered Medical Assistant
About The Position
MedLink Georgia is seeking a compassionate, detail-oriented, bilingual English/Spanish Certified Medical Assistant to support healthcare professionals in delivering patient-centered care. The role involves assisting with clinical examinations and patient care, performing routine diagnostic and laboratory tasks, maintaining equipment and exam rooms, and completing administrative work. The Medical Assistant also supports care-team communication, patient education, appointment coordination, and the organization’s quality improvement and community health activities. Pay is negotiable.
Requirements
- Bilingual in English and Spanish.
- Graduation from an accredited medical assisting program and one year of experience in the medical field, or completion of an approved internship program, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Responsibilities
- Treat staff, practitioners, visitors, and patients with dignity and respect.
- Interview patients, obtain medical histories, measure vital signs, perform vision screenings, and record information in the EHR.
- Share information gathered from patients with appropriate team members to support comprehensive patient care.
- Assist practitioners with examinations as needed.
- Administer medications, injections, and immunizations according to practitioners’ orders.
- Sterilize medical equipment and maintain it in good working order.
- Collect specimens for laboratory testing, perform routine in-house laboratory work, and prepare specimens for outside laboratory studies.
- Perform simple wound care.
- Maintain adequate supplies in exam rooms and ensure exam rooms are clean.
- Follow clinic guidelines and protocols and participate in developing new ones.
- Complete paperwork and clerical duties as needed, including answering phones and computer entry.
- Perform routine diagnostic tests such as EKGs and/or schedule patients for outside diagnostic studies and consultations.
- Participate in community health and disease prevention activities.
- Participate in the corporation’s Quality Improvement Program.
- Participate in daily team huddles as required or requested.
- Participate in staff development programs and promote team cohesiveness.
- Manage personal and staff clinical inboxes.
- Respond promptly to appointment messages and requests received by phone and portal.
- Educate patients about PCMH and how the care team can help them.
- Participate as a member of a patient’s care team within the team-work model.
- Ensure patients receive a copy of their visit summary.
- Ensure patients leave with an appointment and do not face transportation barriers.
- Ensure patients have an identified primary care provider.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
