Outpatient Medical Assistant – Behavioral Health

County of Shasta; Redding (CA); Sur place; USD 37 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

County of Shasta HHSA Behavioral Health and Social Services Branch seeks an assistant to support licensed medical staff in an outpatient clinic. Under direct supervision, you assist with examinations, treatment, and patient care in a community health setting.

Ideal candidate has experience with severe mental illness, strong written and verbal communication, and can document in the electronic health record. Duties include intake tasks, refills processing, and coordinating with a multidisciplinary

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will have experience working with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
• The candidate will have good written and verbal communication skills.

Responsabilités

• Prepares patients for examination procedures, including interviewing patients to obtain basic medical information, recording patient’s medical history, and taking and recording vital signs, weight, and height data.
• Administers limited intradermal, subcutaneous, or intramuscular injections; processes medication refills including reviewing the chart to ensure accuracy, documentation is current, and patients have seen a provider within the appropriate amount of time; submits medication refill requests.

Description du poste

County of Shasta HHSA Behavioral Health and Social Services Branch seeks an assistant to support licensed medical staff in an outpatient clinic. Under direct supervision, you assist with examinations, treatment, and patient care in a community health setting.

Ideal candidate has experience with severe mental illness, strong written and verbal communication, and can document in the electronic health record. Duties include intake tasks, refills processing, and coordinating with a multidisciplinary