"Recurrent Staff - Certified Medical Assistant PRN"

Extended Job Title

Recurrent Staff - Certified Medical Assistant PRN

Position Description

A job involving an appointment for infrequent temporary work where the employee is called in as needed.

Major/Essential Functions

Student Health Services at Texas Tech University is the on-campus medical care clinic exclusively for Texas Tech students. The mission of Student Health Services is to proudly provide compassionate, high-quality and accessible healthcare to Texas Tech students. This primary care clinic is an exciting place to work. It is a fast-paced, team-oriented environment where patients always come first.

The Clinical Assistant will support our mission by:

• Welcoming patients warmly with compassion and enthusiasm.
• Listening carefully to patient needs presented face to face or over the telephone and communicating clear and accurate information in response to all members of the health care team.
• Implementing teaching plans for patients and their families with well-defined health learning needs.
• Reporting data, identifies and reports alterations in patient responses to assist in the identification of problems and formulation of goals/ outcomes and patient-centered plans of care in collaboration with patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team.
• Working collaboratively with other health care team members to ensure patient needs are met and clinic operations are efficient.
• Communicating with patients via telephone per clinic protocols.
• Preparing and operating necessary equipment and instruments for examination, treatments and procedures.
• Assisting with or performs exams and procedures and documents intervention in EMR.
• Taking and recording accurate vital signs and measurements.
• Communicating patient data using EMR to support decision-making to improve patient care.
• Maintaining inventory of supplies in examination and procedure rooms.
• Participating in the identification of patient needs for referral to resources and facilitate continuity of care. Assisting in determining the physical and mental health status, needs, and preferences of culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse patients and their families.
• Assisting Nursing Team Leader with development and implementation of clinic goals, objectives, to facilitate improved patient outcomes.
• Managing refill requests and administering medications to patients following policies and procedures for medication management.
• Completing Annual Nursing Core Competency Training and Skills Fair.
• Participating in emergency preparedness drills in department.
• Attending nursing staff meetings.

Required Qualifications

Education: A minimum of a High School diploma or equivalent.
License/Certification: Graduation from an approved certified program for assistants in the area of required specialty. Certification by an approved accredited certifying agency in the specialty that particular work will be performed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a hospital, ambulatory clinic, or community-based setting.
• CPRBLS Certified.
• Electronic Health Records (EHR) experience.
• Experience in collecting specimens for point of care testing.

Schedule Details

Monday - Thursday 8am-5:30pm, Friday 8am-12pm

Work Location

Lubbock

Pay Statement

Compensation is commensurate upon the qualifications of the individual selected and budgetary guidelines of the hiring department, as well as the institutional pay plan. For additional information, please reference the institutional pay plan website at https://app4.ttuhsc.edu/payplan.

EEO Statement

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.