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Job Type\ Full-time

Description

Are you ready to be part of a fun, engaging, and hardworking team? Pines Health Services voted one of the 2024 Best Places to Work in ME, has an immediate opening for a Medical Assistant to support our Behavioral Health Provider, who sees patients in several health centers. Qualified applicants must commit to our vision, mission, and goals while delivering exceptional patient care. Candidates should be proficient with computers, possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, be outstanding listeners, be adept at problem-solving, be able to prioritize workload and work professionally and independently. The successful applicant will be responsible for managing the practices patients, ensuring smooth daily operations, screening patient calls to the providers, assisting providers with procedures, and performing duties at designated work sites.

Position Summary:

Responsible for the patients of the practice, ensuring smooth daily operations. Screens patient calls to the providers, assists providers with procedures and performs duties at work sites as designated. Applicants should have a strong desire to work in the Behavioral Health field.

Essential Functions:

Ability to communicate verbally in a professional manner with patients, providers, and staff. Ability to follow directions from physician or mid-level provider.

Ability to record patient data in electronic medical record for providers (i.e., vital signs, vision tests, histories, etc.). Providing patient education on medications as needed.

Ability to process lab work, office procedures, makes appointments for diagnostic or specialty testing while educating patients about procedures and preparation for procedures. Prepares (to include stocking of medical supplies as needed) and cleans exam rooms for provider/patient needs. Completes proper sterilization of all office instruments and equipment as necessary. Assesses all clinical calls with provider to determine acuity.

Must have ability to administer injections and have knowledge of immunizations. Maintains smooth flow in daily schedule between providers and patients. Maintains electronic medical record, reads and adds dictation to records, scanning lab results. Upon provider orders, relays patient prescriptions to the pharmacist, follow-up orders, and notification of test results. Responsible for obtaining and preparing electronic medical record for provider to review and document.

Pines Health Services offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. For more information about this visitwww.pineshealth.org/careers/benefits{target="_blank" rel="noopener"}.

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