Lead Medical Assistant

Job Title:

Team Lead (MA)
Job Description

The Team Lead (MA) is responsible for maximizing clinic and team efficiency, productivity, and teamwork. This role involves managing clinic operations, including budget and staffing, and assisting with employee recruitment, selection, and hiring. The Team Lead will also manage staff performance, provide regular updates to the Regional Clinic Manager, and ensure all communications are addressed immediately. Additionally, this position is responsible for attaining prior authorizations and maintaining a tracking system, providing and supervising new employee orientation, and offering CLIA training where applicable.

The Team Lead acts as a role model and subject matter expert for clinic policies and procedures.

• Maximize clinic and team efficiency, productivity, and teamwork.
• Manage clinic operations, including budget and staffing.
• Assist with employee recruitment, selection, and hiring.
• Manage staff performance and provide regular updates to the Regional Clinic Manager.
• Ensure all phone messages, faxes, and interdepartmental mail are addressed immediately.
• Attain prior authorizations and maintain a system to track from start to finish.
• Provide and supervise new employee orientation.
• Provide CLIA training where applicable.
• Act as a role model and subject matter expert for policies and procedures.

• Medical assisting
• Patient care
• Electronic health records
• Medical terminology
• Scribing
• Medical Assistant Certification
• Leadership experience

• Dermatology experience
• EMA experience

The work environment is a dermatology office with a patient volume of approximately 90 per day. The role involves working from 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday. Employees have access to health, dental, and vision insurance, along with a Health Savings Account with a matching contribution. Full-time employees are eligible for PTO, holiday pay, company-paid life insurance, and long-term disability.

Additional benefits include access to voluntary short-term disability insurance, extra life insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity, cancer guardian, 401K with employer contribution, profit sharing, employee discounts, and more.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Chesapeake, VA.

The pay range for this position is $25.00 - $30.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in Chesapeake, VA.

This position is anticipated to close on Feb 26, 2026.

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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