Health Center Assistant

For six years running, Providence Community Health Centers has been named a Best Places to Work and RI Healthiest Employer by Providence Business News. This is a great opportunity to join PCHC in a Health Center Assistant (Medical Assistant) role. 

Education/Qualifications: 

• High school diploma (business course) or equivalent required.
• Completion of a medical assistant program, with 180-hr internship requirement for graduation, is essential.
• Basic Life Support/CPR certification required. 
• Ability to perform responsibilities across life cycle (infants, children, adolescents, adults and geriatric) required. 
• Clear diction and unhampered conversational skills for conversing with a multicultural, multiethnic and multilingual patient community is essential. 
• Computer literacy required. Familiarity with Physician Computer Network preferred but not required. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Assist MDs/NPs/RNs caring for patients (infants, children, adolescents, adults and geriatric) including but not limited to taking/recording vital signs/height/weight/ operating EKG machine, completing point of care testing, developmental screenings preparing patients for examination, preparing work areas, complete refill requests and, documenting patient related procedures/tests in patients' charts. 
• Answer incoming telephone calls, schedule patients using automated appointment scheduling process, interview incoming patients verifying identity, maintain provider appointment schedules, verify financial/insurance information, collect payments for services, and recording required data. 
• Insert patient related material as required; maintain separate logs/records related to care and compliance. 
• Provide general clerical support throughout the organization as needed including filing, answering/rerouting calls, preparing data reports, compiling statistics. 
• Coordinated Care/Patient Centered Medical Care Management: Works with all members of the Health Care Team towards achieving coordinated patient centered care. 
• Demonstrates knowledge of the goals and objectives of PCHC’s patient care management plan. 
• Effectively able to perform and communicate individual tasks within the role. Maintain patient confidentiality at all levels of interaction. 
• Provide general interpretation support for all clinical staff. 
• Knowledge of immigration documentation may be required for some clinics (to include Passport immunizations, Immigration 693 forms, and Refugee I94 Card). 
• The above listing of duties is not meant to be all inclusive. However, the Employer will not ask any Employee to routinely perform a task unrelated to the above-mentioned duties. 

PCHC is EOE/M/F/D/V/SO