Medical Assistant

Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare; Lakewood (WA); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player in behavioral health is seeking a Medical Assistant to join their dynamic team. This role offers the chance to work in a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic, providing vital support to both patients and healthcare professionals. You'll engage with patients, assist in their care, and help manage office duties, all while exemplifying a customer service attitude and professional integrity. If you are passionate about making a difference in mental health care and enjoy a variety of tasks, this position is perfect for you. Join a team dedicated to recovery-oriented and trauma-informed treatment, and be part of a mission-driven organization that values respect, integrity, and collaboration.

Benefits

Medical Benefits

Dental Benefits

Retirement Benefits

Paid Time Off

Qualifications

• Completion of an accredited Medical Assistant program is required.
• Must hold Washington State Medical Assistant-Certified (MA-C) certification.

Responsibilities

• Assist medical staff with direct and indirect patient care.
• Implement excellent office and patient care management.

Skills

Customer Service

Patient Care

Office Management

Professional Diplomacy

Organization

Education

Accredited Medical Assistant Program

Washington State Medical Assistant-Certified (MA-C)

BLS Certification

Job description

Greater Lakes Mental Health is a key component of MultiCare’s Behavioral Health Network, providing mental health and substance use disorder treatment for over 10,000 individuals annually across Pierce County. Providing services for adults, children, and families with Medicaid coverage, Greater Lakes offers 6 convenient mental health care locations including a 16-bed inpatient facility covering medically necessary voluntary and involuntary services to adults. Our experienced teams, veteran nurses, and robust training plans are designed to support your success and growth in facilitating recovery-oriented and trauma-informed treatment.

FTE: 0.4, Shift: Days, Schedule: Day

Position Summary

The Medical Assistant - Behavioral Health is an ideal opportunity for those seeking to be an integral part of a multidisciplinary outpatient behavioral health clinic setting. If you love variety, have a customer service attitude, and exemplify professional diplomacy, this multidisciplinary role is for you.

The Medical Assistant position at MultiCare will allow you to engage with patient customers while working closely with your clinical team to provide excellent customer service and patient care.

Responsibilities

• You will perform direct and indirect patient care in a clinical area, assisting medical staff with patient care and follow-up.
• You will utilize your knowledge towards the integration of available standards, resources, and data.
• You will assist with office duties as needed, applying your discretion, good judgment, and diplomacy towards excellent office and patient care management.
• Partner by implementing your service-oriented attitude, professional integrity, and solid decision-making capacities.
• You will effectively prioritize and apply organization and flexibility to your work duties.

Requirements

• Completion of an accredited program for Medical Assistants.
• Washington State Medical Assistant-Certified (MA-C).
• Current BLS Certification.
• One (1) year of clinic or hospital experience preferred.

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. The pay scale is $24.33 - $35.01 USD. However, pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho.

MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network; MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care; Pulse Heart Institute; MultiCare Medical Associates, affiliated physicians; MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and MultiCare Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization.

Twelve hospitals complete the organization: Allenmore Hospital, Auburn Medical Center, Capital Medical Center, Covington Medical Center, Deaconess Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital — the Puget Sound region’s only children’s hospital and state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center for Western Washington — Navos Behavioral Health Hospital, Valley Hospital, Yakima Valley Hospital, Tacoma General Hospital — which is home to the South Puget Sound region’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — and Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital.

Our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration, Kindness and Joy, serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.

MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach.