Medical Assistant

Discovery Ranch South; Cedar City (UT); On-site; USD 22,000 - 25,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

EAP

Professional development

Gear discounts

Job summary

Discovery Ranch South, located near Cedar City, UT, is seeking a part-time LPN/Medical Assistant to join the clinical team. You will monitor student health, provide health education, and coordinate with therapists, mentors, and parents.

The role includes weekend on-call duties, managing medications, and supporting integrated care within a residential program for adolescent females.

Qualifications

• Must be available for weekend on-call questions.
• Experience in residential or wilderness setting preferred.
• Eligible to work in the USA; pass background checks and motor vehicle record checks.
• Current Utah driver’s license; First Aid & CPR certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-call medical support on weekends, with flexibility to coordinate weekend off-days with nursing staff.
• Communicate medical needs/concerns to parents/legal guardians; coordinate medication changes.
• Inform parents/guardians of appointments, updates, or concerns; coordinate calls with psychiatrist.
• Communicate medical concerns to referral sources; manage all student medications.
• Stocks and restocks medical supplies; ensure Epipens/inhalers and meds are available.
• Check in as needed at student housing.

Skills

On-call flexibility

Weekend coordination

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Medical Assistant Certification or CNA certification

Job description

We believe in the potential of individuals and the ability to restore choice. Through nurturing relationships and challenging experiences, we all can discover hope, passion, and perseverance in the face of life’s adversity.

Part- time | 20-25 hrs/week | Pay $16-$18/HR doe | potential to move to full time

Must be available for weekend on-call questions

Located on a large, breath-taking private ranch on the outskirts of beautiful Cedar City, Discovery Ranch South is a licensed, accredited residential treatment center for for adolescent females. As our LPN and/or Medical Assistant, you will work with our clinical team to provide integrated care services to our students. You will work directly with our students to monitor their health, provide health education, and address their concerns. You will also manage communication regarding students' health with therapists, mentors, and our students' parents.

Discovery Ranch South combines the power of traditional and experiential therapies to create a clinically sophisticated, relationship-based residential treatment program. Healthy relationships, novel and challenging experiences, and a strengths-based approach are how we foster the healing process and create lasting change.

Be a part of the healing journey. Join the clinical team at Discovery Ranch South.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-call medical support on weekends, with flexibility to coordinate weekend off-days with nursing staff.


• Communicate medical needs/concerns to parents/legal guardians
  
  
  
  • Coordinate approval by parents/legal guardians for medication changes
  
  
  • Inform parents/legal guardian of upcoming appts., medical updates or concerns
  
  
  • Coordinate parent calls to talk with psychiatrist
  
  
  • Communicate medical concerns to referral sources
  
  
  
  


• Manages all student medications
  
  
  
  • Ensures medications are secured, accounted for and dispensed as ordered by the prescribing physician
  
  
  • Properly disposes old/unused medications
  
  
  • Monitors/assess medication efficacy and side effects
  
  
  
  


• Stocks,restocks, and reorders medical supplies and equipment
  
  
  
  • Stocks/restocks first aid kits throughout the entire campus
  
  
  • Fanny packs stocked/restocked with Epipens,inhalers,other necessary meds
  
  
  
  


• Check In as needed at student housing


• Competencies
  
  
  
  • Action oriented: Achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility
  
  
  • Leadership: Motivates and collaborates with leadership team
  
  
  • Effective verbal and written communication: Shares information with clarity, listens carefully
  
  
  • Creative and innovative: Develops/improves existing systems with effectiveness
  
  
  • Customer oriented: Listens, builds confidence, ensure needs are met
  
  
  • Interpersonal skills: Effectively establishes trust, credibility and confidence, effectively regulates emotions
  
  
  • Teamwork: Is a part of and utilizes teams to optimize results, acts to build trust, effectively resolves conflicts
  
  
  
  

• Medical Assistant Certification or Certified Nursing Assistant certification

• Eligible to work in the USA


• Able to pass criminal investigation background checks


• Able to pass motor vehicle record check

• Current Utah driver's license (within 30 days of employment)


• First Aid & CPR certified (we may provide)


• Experience in a residential or wilderness setting preferred

• Potential to move to full-time which comes with additional benefits


• Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)


• Continued professional development & certification opportunities


• Significant discounts for hundreds of professional gear brands


• A few hours or less from Zion National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, the Grand Canyon, and Lake Powell


• A few hours from many world-class ski resorts