Description:

We’re currently seeking a qualified medical assistant to join a group of caring professionals. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in a patient-oriented medical environment. With superior communication skills, the medical assistant will further our tradition of excellent patient-centered healthcare and be driven in making the patient experience as comfortable, efficient, and rewarding as possible.

What You Will Do:

• Take medical and psychiatric histories and screenings.
• Assist psychiatrist/APRN during assessments and medication monitoring visits (collect information on current medications, height/weight, blood pressure and enter into system).
• Perform drug screenings and breathalyzers as indicated.
• Monitor and documents vital signs, height/weight, BMI, and performs depression screening.
• Provide administrative support and follow-up to Supervisor, and Medical staff (outreach calls, appointment reminders, etc.).
• Assist in monitoring and tracking clients on MAT including Suboxone.
• Support MD/APRN’s in preparing non-clinical sections of the treatment plans for clients seen as MD/APRN only clients.
• Coordinate with Quest Diagnostics and/or similar phlebotomy capable facilities to ensure clients follow-up with necessary bloodwork and drug screening results.
• Demonstrate basic competency for providing services to clients with co-occurring disorders including an understanding of the Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment (IDDT) principles.

Full time 37.5 hours

Schedule: Monday-Friday 830-430 with a 30 minute lunch

**possibility of later days

Skills:

Medical, Medical assisting, Emr, Patient care, Electronic health record, Health care, Appointment scheduling, Medical terminology, Blood pressure, Rma, Front desk, drug screening, medication adherence, Triage, Patient education

Top Skills Details:

Medical,Medical assisting,Emr,Patient care,Electronic health record,Health care,Appointment scheduling,Medical terminology,Blood pressure,Rma,Front desk

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

What You Will Need:

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Medical Office Assistant certification (CMA or RMA) highly preferred.
• At least 1 year experience in healthcare office/clinic setting required.
• Knowledge of psychiatric illness, substance abuse and general medical practice required.
• Ability to navigate through electronic health record.

About Actalent:

Actalent connects passion with purpose. Our scalable talent solutions and services capabilities drive value and results and provide the expertise to help our customers achieve more. Every day, our experts around the globe are making an impact. We’re supporting critical initiatives in engineering and sciences that advance how companies serve the world. Actalent promotes consultant care and engagement through experiences that enable continuous development. Our people are the difference. Actalent is an operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.