Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) - Behavioral Health Residential Treatment Center

Job description

DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

• Provides patient care for residential behavioral health facilities.
• Coordinates medical care with providers as needed.
• Maintains continuity among teams by documenting and communicating actions.
• Conducts new client intakes and assesses and evaluates client’s continuing needs.
• Administers medication passes, manages client prescriptions, and medication changes.
• Reviews and audits medication logs daily, with new charts audited within first 24 hours.
• Orders and inventories medications.
• Transcribes medication orders onto EMARs for clients.
• Facilitates initial UDS as ordered.
• Coordinates communication with facility medical practitioners.
• Provides client education and documents the process, in conjunction with medical providers.
• Administers TB screening, medications, and flu shots as needed.
• Implements physician’s orders, transcribes orders, and enters into EMR.
• Register for PMP AWARE to verify prescribed narcotic or controlled medication history.
• Facilitates patient rounds/vital signs with Residential Staff and forms additional rounds/vital signs, if clinically significant.
• Cleaned and sanitized work areas and medical equipment.
• Knowledgeable in the documentation process for a medication administration record (MAR).
• Provides training to staff on medication education, vital signs, and emergency processes.
• Required to attend education trainings.
• Document client progression through the EMR system and review medical records before leaving each shift, ensuring accuracy and signatures when necessary.
• Review HR the SelSelf-Servicertal weekly for training expirations, workflows or company information.
• Perform Med room refrigerator checks
• Medical equipment calibrations.
• Additional duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• None

REQUIREMENTS:

• Certificated/or completed formal schooling as a Medical Assistant
• At least one-year experience in an equivalent position
• Knowledge of recovery, addictions, and psychiatric conditions preferred
• Must possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Must maintain the highest level of client confidentiality
• Must be a team player, open-minded, flexible, and willing to accept direction and responsibility
• Must work well in a crisis setting and be willing to learn new crisis intervention techniques
• CPR/FA, CPI Training, Fingerprint, and TB clearances
• Prefer experience or familiarity with recovery and a 12-step/ NA/AA and other alternative recovery methods.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The work environment may include exposure to outdoor weather conditions
• May involve exposure to and handling of potentially bio-hazardous materials

Employees with potential access to protected health information must comply with all procedures and guidelines governed by HIPAA.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Must have reasonable ability to stand, walk, sit, handle, feel, reach, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk, hear, taste, and smell. Must be reasonably capable of lifting 50 pounds. minimal transfer of clients, bedside assistance, education on a use of a walker, cane, wheel chair if necessary. Help from a fall.

WORK HOURS:

• The position can be Part Time / Full Time, Non-Exempt.
• You may be required to work holidays, weekends, and shifts within a 24-hour day.
• Variable hour shifts (typically 8-10- or 12 hours).

BENEFITS:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short-term Disability, and 401K with up to 4% employer match for Full-Time employment, Flexible Spending Account, and Life Insurance.
• Full-time employees will accrue PTO hours during each pay period.
• Part-time will accrue sick-timehours each pay period.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Benefits:

• On-the-job training
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid sick time

Medical specialties:

• Addiction Medicine
• Psychiatry

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12-hour shift
• 8-hour shift
• Afternoon shift
• Weekend
• Night shift
• Overtime
• Rotating weekend

Work setting:

• Inpatient
• In-person
• JCAHO accredited facility
• Outpatient
• Rehabilitation center

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Prescott, AZ 86301: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: three locations within less than a mile of each other.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: From $19.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• On-the-job training
• Opportunities for advancement
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Vision insurance

Medical Specialty:

• Addiction Medicine
• Psychiatry

Work Location: In person

Salary : $19