Position Highlights:

• Lifestyle: Sandusky was voted "Best Coastal Small Town in America". You will have the opportunity to enjoy living and working in this growing area along the beautiful shores of Lake Erie.
• Work/life: You will find support to help you manage your personal life while building a career.
• Employee-centric: 401(k), health and wellness offerings, monthly employee events, and more.

About Firelands Health:
Our goal at Firelands Health is to be the best & preferred independent healthcare employer for the Sandusky Bay region.
Firelands Health is the area's largest and most comprehensive resource for quality medical care. We are "big enough to care for you, and small enough to care about you". We are locally managed and governed as a not-for-profit healthcare facility, serving the counties of Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron, covering a regional service area with over 300,000 residents. Our mission is to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve the lives we serve.
Our Core ACE Values: Attitude: We choose to be positive and inclusive every day. Commitment: We are committed to exceed the expectations of those we serve. Enthusiasm: We will work passionately to make a difference.
What you will do:

• Receives authorization for services, checking for special instructions. Pleasantly greets patients confirming their identification and introduces self.
• Services may be provided in the clinic or at the worksite.
• Prepares room, equipment, and materials as needed for patients. Prepares patient and explains procedures for treatment, phlebotomy and/or EKG.
• Maintains necessary certifications for clinic skills and willing to learn new skills as needed/requested, such as vision and hearing testing, drug screen collection, breath alcohol testing. Able to administer intradermal and intramuscular injections after passing competencies.
• Answers telephone using proper telephone etiquette and relays messages in a timely manner. Greets and directs patients and clients and answers questions in a courteous and professional manner.
• Knowledge of the needs of patients according to their age group and the ability to modify care according to patient's age. Will most frequently care for adults and geriatric patients; and on occasion, adolescents and children.

Other tasks:

• Transports patient if necessary.
• Schedules testing, as necessary. Performs office procedures accurately in absence of clerical personnel. Performs all clerical functions when not performing technical procedures.
• Maintains stock supplies for assigned room or work area.
• Ability to work flexible shifts in clinic and off-site at companies.
• Ability to assist with clerical functions and special projects as requested by the coordinator/manager.

What you will need:

• High School Graduate, or equivalent; Medical Assistant Certificate required. Previous Phlebotomy and EKG experience preferred.
• Maintains and upgrades own professional development and necessary certifications (CPR, CAT, BAT, etc.) Posses or be willing to obtain CAT (certified audiometric technician) and BAT (Breath Alcohol Technician) certification and keep each current every 5 years. All certifications will be completed at the need of the department.
• Must be currently certified in CPR, and maintain certification.
• Ability to operate EKG machines.
• Ability to perform blood pressure, pulse, respirations and temperature readings.
• Ability to perform chain of custody urine drug screens preferred.
• Must possess a valid State of Ohio motor vehicle operator's license and be insurable under Firelands' auto policy. Employee must provide proof of personal automobile liability insurance coverage upon request.
• Ability to work in a stressful environment and handle sensitive telephone and face-to-face inquiries.
• Ability to lift 75 pounds with assistance and be mobile.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)