Medical Assistant - Pediatrics

Company: Scripps Health
Location: Chula Vista
Posted on: September 4, 2020

Job Description:

Job Description: div data-field="profile" class="jd-profile"pScripps Health Administrative Services supports our five hospitals and 19 outpatient facilities, which treat half a million patients annually through 2,600 affiliated physicians./p/divdiv data-field="description" class="jd-description"p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"font face="Arial"At Scripps Health, you will experience the pride, support, respect that has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation's Top 100 Places to Work./font/p divfont face="Arial" /font/div p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"font face="Arial"You'll be surrounded by people committed to making a difference in the lives of their patients and their teammates. So if you're open to change, go ahead and unlock your potential./font/p divfont face="Arial" /font/div p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"font face="Arial"The ideal candidate will be someone who is looking to grow their experience as a Medical Assistant and is committed to delivering exceptional patient care. In this role you will be supporting the Eastlake Scripps Clinic, Pediatrics Department, primarily in a back office clinical role. In this role you will be rooming patients, taking vitals, administering medications, and assisting providers with minor procedures./font/p divfont face="Arial" /font/div p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"font face="Arial"The MA maintains a clean, organized and safe environment. The MA organizes and performs patient care services that support the physician's practice. This includes assisting in preparing patients for examination/procedures, assisting physicians with procedures, relaying instructions from the physician to the patient or authorized person, collecting patient data in person and by phone and documenting patient concerns, messages and care provided in the electronic medical record for the physician's review, administering medications specifically directed by the physician and performing vital sign documentation, scheduling of appointments and procedures, complete and accurate message taking, routing messages to the appropriate area for direction, order and referral entry, acquisition of pre-certifications and setting up of cases in EPIC, and basic registration and updating of demographics./font/p divfont face="Arial" /font/div p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"font face="Arial"This position is Full-Time, working Monday - Friday with variable start times depending upon department needs. There will also be occasional Saturday shifts from 8am - 12pm. /font/p p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"font face="Arial" size="3"br/font/p/divdiv data-field="qualification" class="jd-qualification"divbfont face="Arial"Required Qualifications:/font/b/div ul type="disc"lifont face="Arial"Completion of a formal Medical Assistant Program OR hold a Medical Assistant Certification OR have a minimum of two years of experience as a military corpsman. /font/lilifont face="Arial"BLS certification for the Healthcare Provider by the American Heart Association (AHA) /font/li/ul divbfont face="Arial"Preferred Qualifications:/font/b/div ul type="disc"lifont face="Arial"1 year of experience working as a Medical Assistant preferred, but not required/font/lilifont face="Arial"Pediatrics experience preferred /font/li/ul p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"font face="Arial" size="3"br/font/p/divdiv data-field="EEOC" class="jd-EEOC"pemScripps Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity/expression), age, marital status, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability. /em/p/div

Keywords: Scripps Health, Chula Vista , Medical Assistant - Pediatrics, Other , Chula Vista, California