Certified Medical Assistant for Behavioral Health Residential Facility

*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, assesses, and evaluates client’s continuing needs.
* Performs nursing and nutritional assessments.
* 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 all orders onto MAR’s 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, enters into EMR.
* Register for PMP AWARE to verify prescribed narcotic or controlled medication history.
* Facilitates patient rounds/vital signs with Residential Staff, performs additional rounds/vital signs, if clinically significant.
* Cleaned and sanitized work areas and medical equipment.
* Knowledgeable in documentation process for a medication administration record (MAR).
* Provides training to staff on medication education, vital signs and emergency processes.
* Required to attend educations and trainings.
* Document client progression through EMR system and review medical records before leaving each shift, ensuring accuracy and signatures when necessary.
* Review HR Self Service Portal weekly for training expirations, workflows or company information.
* Perform Med room refrigerator checks * 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:* * 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 30 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 will accrue PTO hours each pay period.
* Part-Time will accrue Sick-Time hours each pay period.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time Benefits: * 401(k) * Flexible spending account * 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 * Day shift * Every weekend * Monday to Friday * Night shift * Overnight shift * Overtime * Rotating weekends * Weekend availability 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 Type: Full-time Pay: $17.
50 - $18.
00 per hour Expected hours: No more than 40 per week Benefits: * 401(k) matching * Dental insurance * Disability insurance * Flexible spending account * Health insurance * Life insurance * On-the-job training * Opportunities for advancement * Paid sick time * Paid time off * Paid training * Vision insurance Medical specialties: * Addiction Medicine * Psychiatry Schedule: * 10 hour shift * 12 hour shift * 3x12 * 4x10 * Day shift * Every weekend Work setting: * Inpatient * In-person Experience: * EMR systems: 1 year (Required) * Vital signs: 1 year (Required) License/Certification: * BLS Certification, Fingerprint clearance card (Required) * Certified Medical Assistant Certificate, (Required) Work Location: In person