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Family & Community Services, Inc. Medical Assistant - AxessPointe Community Health Centers, West Akron - Full-Time in Akron, Ohio

  • ies within a team structure with minimal supervision.
  • Demonstrate flexibility/adaptability in meeting environmental constraints and demands.
  • Assume accountability for demonstrating behaviors consistent with API's written policies and procedures.
  • Ability to lift, carry and store clinical equipment and supplies within the center as directed.
  • Follow Health Department guidelines regarding communicable diseases.
  • Document all nursing care consistent with professional standards utilizing the agency approved electronic health record.
  • Communicate appropriate information, both verbal and written, diplomatically with patients and staff, including those which may be of a sensitive nature to ensure continuity of care.
  • Address all incoming phone calls, patient requests, and voicemail throughout the day.
  • Respond to all telephone encounters, fax inbox, and scan inbox throughout the day.
  • Protect confidential information of patients from unauthorized use or disclosure.
  • Coordinate inventory, order processing and distribution of products and services.
  • Ensure appropriate distribution of tasks within your team.
  • Participate in daily huddles.
  • Attend regular department meetings and effectively train/educate the team.
  • Ensure daily duties, logs and checklists are being completed accurately.
  • Adhere to departmental policies and procedures.
  • Per Ohio Revised Code 2151.421, any clinical support staff who know, or has reasonable cause to suspect based on facts that a child under eighteen years of age, or a person under twenty-one years of age with a developmental disability or physical impairment, has suffered or faces a threat of suffering any physical or mental wound, injury, disability, or other condition of a nature that reasonably indicates abuse or neglect of the child must make a report to child protective services or law enforcement.

     

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities above represent the most significant duties of this position but does not exclude other occasional work assignments that would be within the qualification and responsibility levels of the position.

Requirements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Graduation from an accredited nursing program, or certification as a medical assistant.
  • Holds and maintains an unrestricted LPN license in the State of Ohio or holds a certified medical assistance certification.
  • Holds and maintains BLS certification through the American Heart Association
  • Ability to read, write and speak English
  • Two to five years of community health experience preferred.
  • Computer competency to include use of work processing, e-mails, and internet.
  • Previous experience with electronic health record technology is preferred

LICENSES OR CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

  • LPN License - State of Ohio or
  • Certification in Medical Assisting

COMPLIANCE:

This position requires compliance with API's written standards, including its Compliance Program and Standards of Conduct and policies and procedures. Such compliance will be an element considered as part of the regular performance evaluation.

 

Failure to comply with API's Written Standards, which may include the failure to report any conduct or event that potentially violates legal or compliance requirements or API's Written Standards or, for managers and supervisors, fails to detect non-compliant conduct where reasonable efforts would have resulted in detection, will be met by the enforcement of disciplinary action, up to and including possible termination, in accordance with API's Compliance Program Policy and Procedure: Addressing Instances of Non-Compliance through Appropriate Disciplinar

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