MEDICAL ASSISTANT
About The Position
The Harmony Healthcare Long Island is a non-profit healthcare organization with 7 health centers, providing primary care and preventative medicine in the following locations in Nassau County: Roosevelt, Elmont, Hempstead, Freeport, Oceanside, and New Cassel/Westbury. In addition, the Harmony Healthcare Long Island has 4 school-based health centers, WIC offices (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) in 3 locations, and a Health Home Care Coordination program. As federally qualified health centers, we serve the individuals in our communities, providing enhanced services, expanded hours and reduced prescription pricing, while raising the level of care. We treat patients regardless of income, residency or immigration status. The Harmony Healthcare Long Island offers a stable employment opportunity with a growing company, and competitive base compensation along with health and dental insurance, paid time off, 401-K with company match, paid holidays, employee discounts and much more.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Medical Assistant Certification required
- Basic CPR (BCLS) Certification
- Two years of experience working in the health care field
- Capacity for covering Medical Assistants at all sites as needed
- Bilingual in English and Spanish/Creole required
- This is Monday through Friday. Shifts are from 8 AM to 4 PM, with one evening shift from 12 PM to 8 PM and one rotating Saturday each month
Responsibilities
- Assists with the preparation of patients prior to seeing practitioners
- Assists the practitioners with patient care in the conduct of clinical examinations and materials preparation; i.e. dressing changes, Pap Smear, etc.
- Acts as a translator for patients as needed
- Responsible for taking vital signs, administering tuberculin tests, and performing procedures for specimen collection, routine eye screening, hearing tests, hematocrit, urinalysis, and urine culture
- Performs EKG and simple laboratory procedures
- Distributes lab reports to practitioners for review
- Provides patient counseling regarding procedures (Ex. lab tests)
- Assist in the maintenance of inventories and stocking of supplies in examination rooms, nursing and lab areas
- Maintains logs of required data as needed
- Acts as the patient’s advocate and liaison for the preservation of patient's rights
- Participates in off-site screening projects as needed
- Participates in departmental QA and other patient-related committees as needed
- Participates in outreach and community screenings as needed
- Participates in case management and patient surveys in maintaining quality assurance
- Other related duties as assigned
Benefits
- health and dental insurance
- paid time off
- 401-K with company match
- paid holidays
- employee discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
