Clinical Assistant 1

Pay Range:$25.00 - $26.86

Become a nationally certified medical assistant/clinical assistant through our paid training program! Work 40 PAID hours per week, M-F 8a-5p and learn in a supported environment partnering with skilled mentors and taking our online training courses! Enjoy all the perks of a full time, fully benefitted position! Get top notch training and grow your career serving patients! Thinking about nursing school?

SEARHC offers tuition assistance!

The Clinical Assistant provides care to infants, toddlers, children, adolescents, adults, and elderly in a rural ambulatory care clinic.

Essential job responsibilities include rooming patients, performing clinical duties, maintaining lab and exam rooms, quality assurance activities and demonstrating customer service skills.

In addition, Clinical Assistants perform administrative and data management tasks.

This position is essential in maintaining efficient clinic operations and patient flow to maximize the provider’s time and to ensure access to care.

This information is written in patients’ chart along with patients’ medical history.

This position works closely with providers giving support such as rooming patients, performing Point of Care testing, answering phones, processing provider orders, data entry, and participation in training processes.

Must demonstrate good judgment and be self-starting but works under close supervision of provider.

SEARHC is a non-profit health consortium which serves the health interests of the residents of Southeast Alaska.

We see our employees as our strongest assets. It is our priority to further their development and our organization by aiding in their professional advancement.

Working at SEARHC is more than a job, it’s a fulfilling career.

We offer generous benefits, including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health insurance, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance and long and short-term disability, and more.

Shift Details M-F 8-5

Prepares for patient visit by reviewing chart for needed forms, follow-up labs or procedures needed. Obtains and records age-appropriate vital signs per department protocol, i.e., temperature, height, weight, head circumference, blood pressure, respiration, pulse oximetry, visual acuity testing. Obtains medical history update and confirms medications. Accurately collects and documents information in patient chart. Keeps patient records in order with all forms properly identified;

copies and compiles other medical data as needed. Recognizes signs or symptoms requiring prompt intervention and acts appropriately. Transport patients within the facility, as needed. Demonstrate ability to smoothly manage patient care duties while maintaining clinic flow. Reports, and when appropriate, records any changes observed in condition or behavior of patients, unusual incidents, or breeches in safety. Observes patients to insure children, elderly, or impaired patients who require observation or assistance have someone in attendance.

Sets up equipment and supplies for routine exams and minor procedures. Prepares patients for and assists with procedures, treatments, and minor office surgeries. Provides specimen collection and Point of Care Testing (POCT). Follows protocol for collecting, labeling, and transporting of specimens. With appropriate orders applies heat/cold packs, abdominal binders, anti-embolism stockings, obtain 12 lead EKG, peak flow, applies oxygen. Assists patients with ambulation or transfer;

performs minor, non-invasive treatments Sanitizes exam rooms between patients. Appropriately processes surgical equipment and ensures sterile package integrity. Maintains a safe and clean environment. Ensures exam…