Job Description:

Cayuga Centers is hiring immediately for a Medical Assistant in NYC!

Salary: $26.00/hourly

Location: Harlem, NY

Join our team to make a difference in the lives of children, youth and families in our community!

About Cayuga Centers

Cayuga Centers is an accredited non-profit, human services agency dedicated to family support and preservation, trauma-informed care, and serving vulnerable populations with the most unique needs. Founded in 1852 in Auburn, NY, we have a long history of delivering high-quality and innovative services to individuals, children, youth and families. We have offices in 10 cities and serve over 10,000 individuals and families annually. Join us!

At Cayuga Centers, we embrace Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB). We do this by taking a firm stance against hatred, inequality, bias, and injustice. We do this by providing our staff with the training, coaching, and resources necessary to grow and serve with cultural humility, acceptance, and understanding. We are responsive to the diverse needs of those we serve and staff, and are committed to ensuring that everyone feels respected, valued, and a sense of belonging.

About the Program and Position:

This is a transitional foster care program for Unaccompanied Children (UC) under the supervision of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). An unaccompanied child (ages 0-17) has left their home country and crossed the US southern border without an adult. Instead of a congregate care setting, we place unaccompanied children in foster homes while we find and vet a sponsor for them to be unified within the US. During their stay with us, we provide medical care, case management, life skills classes and mental health services. The role our Medical Assistants play in all of this is crucial to the health & wellbeing of our unaccompanied children who are trying to establish a new home in the U.S.

Our Medical Assistants are passionate about helping this vulnerable population and provide support for any medical needs required by the unaccompanied children we serve.

How you get to use your skills…

• Assist with initial medical assessments which includes but is not limited to: vitals, vision test, electrocardiogram (ECG) and point of care testing (ie. urine pregnancy test, strep test, flu test, COVID test, glucose test)
• Act as English-Spanish translator for medical provider
• Work collaboratively with the Medical Provider, Case Manager, Clinician, Nurse and Skills Trainer to coordinate appropriate services for each youth
• Provide support with creating and electronically submitting Treatment Authorization Requests for each youth
• Responsible for all medical reporting requirements which includes government UCPortal as well as internal electronic medical record MEDENT
• Responsible for discharge documentation preparation

Schedule:

• Non-Exempt
• Regular hours entail Monday - Friday 8am-4pm or 10am-6pm
• Must be flexible to meet program needs
• On-Call and Holidays may be required