Behavioral Health Medical Assistant

MEDICAL ASSISTANT IN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH

Evergreen Family Medicine is committed to providing excellent care for your family with clinics in Roseburg and Myrtle Creek Oregon. Evergreen Family Medicine serves outpatient needs, including Urgent Care, Family Practice, Behavioral Health, Women’s Health, Occupational Health, and school-based telehealth.

Evergreen Family Medicine is a Drug Free Workplace. All candidates that are offered employment will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screen and background check.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Room patient for provider
• Take vitals, check meds, and patient history
• Clean Rooms
• Complete UA dips
• Triage calls and make appropriate call backs for provider
• Complete medicine refill requests and fax or call in when needed
• Complete patient notifications for normal lab & x-ray results
• Calling lab, etc. for results
• Scheduling appointments only if requested by provider
• Know and be able to use ICD-10 coding on labs and diagnostics
• Call drug reps; check on drug supplies and expiration dates
• Scribe patient visits
• Be available to be flexible in your work hours
• Behavioral Health Screenings
• Other duties as directed by your manager

Qualifications and Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
• Administer medications accordingly as directed by the provider
• Assess patient needs and document accurately
• Set priorities for nursing action in a sequence according to patient needs
• Communicate with the provider and other nurses and team members to ensure the patients well being
• Teach patient appropriate health information and share written informational material
• Maintain a clean, neat and safe work environment for patient and staff according to policy and procedures
• Participate in economical utilization of supplies
• Ensure equipment is maintained in a safe and clean manner
• Minimize non-productive time and fill slow periods with activities that will enable you to prepare to meet the future needs of EFM

Physical requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands and fingers, handle, or feel; and reach forward with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• May be exposed to patients with infectious diseases.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 - 25 pounds at times.

Our culture and values are every employee’s responsibility:

The needs of our patient come first S.P.I.R.I.T

• Stewardship
• Patient & Population Focused Health Care
• Integrity
• Respect
• Innovation
• Teamwork

Benefits:
• Health, Dental, Vision benefits
• Life Insurance
• 401k with a company match up to 6%
• Paid Time Off