Sr Certified Medical Assistant - Float - Central Houston

Legacy Community Health; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Holidays

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

403b with company match

Disability insurance

Copays at Legacy visits (0)

Copays at Legacy prescriptions (0)

Travel Insurance

Pet Insurance

Subsidized Gym Membership

Job summary

Legacy Community Health seeks a Senior Certified Medical Assistant to float across Central Houston clinics. You will lead, coach, and mentor MA teams, supporting education and competency development while ensuring safe, high-quality patient care.

You will collaborate with clinical leaders to improve workflows and patient outcomes in a primary care setting. This role emphasizes hands-on MA duties two shifts per pay period, ongoing education, and alignment with Legacy’s mission to deliver

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Registered or Certified Medical Assistant required from an accredited school.
• Two (2) years of clinical experience is required.
• Experience using electronic medical records is required.
• Bilingual / Spanish fluency is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Train new and existing medical assistant team members to ensure competencies.
• Provide guidance to preceptors and ongoing coaching and mentoring to medical assistants.
• Assist RNM in the assessment, planning, and implementation of comprehensive clinical training programs.
• Identify and report clinical safety, quality, and training deficiencies.
• Regularly collaborate with management to report findings.
• Perform routine chart audits to validate documentation and practice.
• Participate in monthly inventory reconciliation of supplies, medications, and vaccines.
• Attend required training programs and support department goals.
• Perform MA tasks across two shifts per pay period.

Skills

Communication skills

Bilingual Spanish

Multitasking

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Registered or Certified Medical Assistant

Job description

Benefits

• Paid Time Off & Paid Company Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• $0 Copay for Legacy Provider visits
• $0 Copay for prescriptions filled at Legacy Pharmacies
• Travel Insurance & Pet Insurance
• Subsidized Gym Membership
• And much more!

Location: Various Legacy Clinics

Sr Certified Medical Assistant - Float - Central Houston (Job Overview)

Schedule: Monday-Friday (8AM-5PM)

Bring your clinical experience, compassion, and passion for team development to a role where your guidance helps strengthen community healthcare. As a Senior Certified Medical Assistant, you will support medical assistants across service lines through education, observation, coaching, mentoring, and data collection that advance clinical quality and desired outcomes.

You will partner closely with clinical leadership, management, patients, and families to help create a safe, efficient, effective, culturally sensitive, and language-appropriate primary care medical home experience. Your leadership will help build team confidence, encourage consistent workflows, and support care that recognizes the needs of the whole person.

Why this role matters

• Support the education, competency, and professional development of medical assistant team members.
• Help identify and address clinical safety, quality, documentation, and training opportunities.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary colleagues to improve timely access, continuity of care, and whole-person health.
• Balance leadership responsibilities with hands-on Medical Assistant work by performing Medical Assistant tasks two shifts every pay period.
• Grow through coaching, collaboration, RNM training, and participation in ongoing clinical education.
• Join a mission-driven team where your passion for patient care and team development can make a lasting impact.

Your team experience

You will work alongside clinical leadership and management to promote shared goals, effective working relationships, and reliable care practices. Through mentorship and day-to-day collaboration, you will help colleagues feel supported while contributing to a welcoming environment for every patient and family.

• Make a difference in community healthcare through clinical quality and team support.
• Contribute to a collaborative, multidisciplinary care environment.
• Help advance safe, consistent, and meaningful patient experiences.
• Develop your leadership skills through coaching, training, and ongoing professional growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Train new and existing medical assistant team members to ensure competencies.
• Provide guidance to preceptors and provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to medical assistants.
• Assist RNM in the assessment, planning, and implementation of comprehensive clinical training programs to meet the orientation and ongoing competency and professional development needs of the medical assistant staff across all service lines.
• Assist RNM in implementation of education and workflow changes/updates for the medical assistant team.
• Identify, collect, and report clinical safety, quality, and training deficiencies that affect staff’s ability to fulfill their job responsibilities.
• Regularly collaborate with management to report identified findings.
• Perform routine chart audits to validate appropriate documentation/practice of the medical assistants.
• Successfully complete Regional Nurse Manager (RNM) training and attend meetings as assigned.
• Perform tasks of a Medical Assistant two shifts every pay period.
• Participate in monthly reconciliation of inventory of supplies, medications, and vaccines.
• Attend all required training programs.
• Check on the patient’s environment and equipment to ensure safety.
• Report safety concerns promptly to appropriate personnel.
• May serve as the Vaccines for Children program coordinator.
• Promote effective working relations and work effectively as part of a team to facilitate the department’s ability to meet its goals and objectives.
• Promote shared vision and goals through demonstration of effective and efficient working relationships and duties.
• Maintain work area and equipment in accordance with Legacy and government standards.
• Follow Legacy’s exposure control plans/blood-borne and airborne pathogens.
• Follow the standard operating procedures for specimen handling and processing, test analyses, reporting and maintaining records of patient test results.
• Adhere to Legacy’s quality control policies, document all quality control activities, instrument and procedural calibrations and maintenance performed.
• Work within the context of a primary care medical home, applying a team-based approach to care while working in partnership with patients/families to promote timely access to care, understanding of patient care that is culturally sensitive and language appropriate, continuity of care, and the improvement of the whole-person through the teaching of appropriate self-management skills.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Registered or Certified as a Medical Assistant required from an accredited school.

Required Years of Experience

• Two (2) years clinical experience is required.
• Previous experience working in electronic medical records is required.

Desirable Education and/or Experience

• Minimum of one year experience as LCH Medical Assistant.
• Prior experience as medical assistant or similar capacity such as patient care technician or certified nursing assistant, preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

• Excellent communication skills and customer service skills.
• Knowledge of techniques, procedures, and correct use of protective barrier equipment (Universal Precautions).
• Ability to work with clinical staff, work well under pressure, prioritize tasks, and multitask within a multidisciplinary team.
• Commitment to the concepts of preventive health care programs and team approach to health care delivery.
• Strong typing and computer skills, including understanding of Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrates proficiency in all medical assistant duties and responsibilities.
• This job requires access to confidential and sensitive information, requiring ongoing discretion and secure information management

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

• Bilingual / Spanish fluency.
• Basic front desk, clerical, or support specialist skills/experience helpful.
• Phlebotomy skills preferred.

About Legacy Community Health

The largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Southeast Texas, Legacy Community Health has delivered affordable, high-quality care for nearly 40 years across 50+ clinics in Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast. Our mission — driving healthy change in our communities — guides everything we do, and it starts with our people.

Approachable & Collaborative — Leads with humility, values diverse perspectives, and builds trust through teamwork.

Driven & Committed — Takes initiative and goes the extra mile to improve patient outcomes and drive continuous improvement.

Thoughtful Communicators — Pairs clinical/technical skill with emotional intelligence, navigating complex situations with empathy and professionalism.