Medical Assistant - Vaccine Coordinator

Overview: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; color: black;"Vista Community Clinic is a private, non-profit, multi-specialty outpatient clinic providing care in a comprehensive, high quality setting. Located in San Diego, Orange and Riverside counties, we work to advance community health and hope by providing access to premier health services. We are dedicated, motivated, enthusiastic team players making a difference in the community. Competitive compensation and benefits program includes health, dental, vision, company-paid life, flexible spending accounts and a 403(B) plan, for eligible employees. VCC is an equal opportunity employer./span/p Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Responsible for ensuring all vaccines in clinic are stored and handled correctly.  May delegate duties to lower level staff./span/pullispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Support physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and/or nurses by taking vitals, assisting in medical examinations and other specific procedures/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;" Complete and monitor all lab work for quality assurance and ensure compliance with all auditing authorities.   /span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Prepare patients for examination and assist providers with the examination and/or procedure/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Oversee proper receipt, storage and transport of vaccine shipments/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Ensure current Vaccine Information Statement is always used/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Maintain all appropriate storage and handling documentation as set by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Maintain storage equipment in compliance with CDC standards and manufacturer’s guidelines/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Maintain records, including Vaccines for Children (VFC) and Adults (VFA) program documentation/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Report and return vaccines within 30 days of expiration or spoilage/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Store and label vaccines in storage units following CDC guidelines; ensure vaccines are organized within the unit and inspect storage unit daily/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Check stock weekly and rotate when a shipment arrives so vaccine closest to expiration date is used first/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Promptly remove expired vaccines from the storage unit; ensure never administered to a patient/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Work with the San Diego Immunization Registry / Public Health Department to transfer vaccines close to expiration/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: verdana, geneva;"Ensure a digital data logging thermometer with a current certificate of calibration is maintained for each vaccine storage unit/span/li/ul Qualifications: p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"stronguspan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Minimum/span/u/strong/pullispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"High school graduate or equivalent/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Clinical Medical Assistant Certification indicating completion of program from an approved school or hospital including externship/span/lilistrongspan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Bilingual English/Spanish/span/strongstrongspan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;" /span/strong/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Current CPR certification/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Minimum of one year back office experience in a clinical environment/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Phlebotomy experience; certificate preferred/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"stronguspan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Required Skills/Knowledge/Abilities/span/u/strong/pullispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Good knowledge of general back office procedures, such as taking vitals, performing venipuncture, administering immunizations, etc/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Good comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology in English and Spanish/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Emergency response capability for possible crisis situations/span/lilispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Experience/familiarity with computers, Microsoft Office products (Word/Excel), business e-mail communication systems and internet search capabilities/span/li/ulp style="margin: 0px;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongspan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Pay Range/span/strong/span/pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"$23.00 - $26.50 DOE/span/p