Medical Assistant PRN - Flex Pool

100 LCMC Health; Houma (LA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Deliver healthcare with heart

Lagniappe in everything you do

One-of-a-kind care

Job summary

LCMC Health is seeking a clinic support professional in Louisiana to assist with patient intake, documentation, and daily clinic operations. The role emphasizes accurate vital signs collection, appointment coordination, and maintaining patient privacy and comfort across diverse patient populations.

You will work under the Clinic Manager/designee to ensure safety, quality improvement participation, and smooth patient flow within East Jefferson General Hospital and surrounding facilities.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED or equivalent OR 2 years of work experience.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Measures and records vital signs and reports findings to nursing staff or medical provider.
• Assists with patient arrival, schedules appointments, and facilitates patient exit.
• Recognizes emergencies and responds per policy.
• Maintains patient comfort considering age and needs.
• Operates and disinfects clinic equipment per policy and maintains exam rooms.

Education

High School Diploma/GED or equivalent

Job description

Your job is more than a job. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this department. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, and LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

General Duties Clinical:

• Measures and records appropriate vital signs, identifies abnormal values and reports findings to the appropriate nursing staff or medical provider.
• Assists with patient arrival to the clinic, schedules new and follow-up patient appointments and facilitates a smooth patient exit from clinic.
• Recognizes emergencies and responds appropriately in adherence to organizational policy and procedure.
• Provides for comfort needs of patients with consideration of age and special needs.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of clinic equipment, including preparation of equipment, testing of equipment for safety prior to use on patient, cleaning and disinfecting of equipment (between patients and at clinic’s end) according to hospital policy.
• Maintains linens, supplies, equipment for clinic use and stocks exam rooms/tables appropriately.
• Properly collects, prepares, secures laboratory specimens for testing and/or transport when necessary.

Documentation:

• Documents appropriately in the patient medical record according to established departmental guidelines.
• Properly navigates Electronic Medical Record to obtain laboratory and radiology results, outside medical records, updates patient demographic data and schedules follow-up appointments.
• Prepares safety reports when warranted or as directed by the Clinic Manager/designee.
• Maintains privacy of patient personal health information by ensuring computer screens are secure in the absence of medical/nursing/clinical staff.

Professionalism and Support:

• Demonstrates honesty, promptness, dependability, courtesy and respect in interactions with patients, caregivers, customers, co-workers and staff.
• Consults and keeps clinic manager informed of clinic activities, requirements, and problems.
• Demonstrates ability to manage patient and/or co-worker complaints in a calm, positive, non-judgmental manner, and reports these events to clinic manager on a daily basis.
• Maintains strict patient confidentiality exemplified by discussing issues only with appropriate persons and in a place and manner.

Safety and Infection Control:

• Implements standard and transmission-based precautions, per hospital policy.
• Ensures patient safety during clinic visits, per hospital policy.
• Reports any safety hazards or violations in patient or clinic environment to Clinic Manager or designee.
• Actively participates in Quality Improvement Process, including QAPI projects and EOC Rounds.

Clerical Support:

• Participates in the clinic preparation process by gathering appropriate clinical documentation for review by the medical provider.
• Obtains medical records from outside facilities when needed or requested by medical provider.
• Scans outside correspondence into the appropriate area of the electronic medical record.
• Answers the telephone and routes calls promptly to the appropriate person.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Required:

• High School Diploma/GED or equivalent OR 2 years of work experience.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from American Heart Association.

WORK SHIFT:

• Variable Hours (United States of America)

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little "come on in" attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health's culture of everyday extraordinary.

About East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson General Hospital, a landmark of LCMC Health's incredible community of care, has been the go-to hospital for health, wellness, and one-of-a-kind care in East Jefferson Parish for over 50 years. And we’re only beginning to realize our greatest potential. Learn more about East Jefferson General Hospital and our legacy, our future, and our national recognition as a Nurse Magnet Hospital.

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do.
• You are welcome here.

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

From medical roles to administrative positions, every person on our team plays a part in our mission: to provide health, care, and education beyond extraordinary. Let’s make every day extraordinary, together.