Medical Assistant

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 looking for dedicated, motivated, enthusiastic team players who want to make a difference in the community. Our 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-bottom: .0001pt;"span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Supports physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and/or nurses by taking vitals, assisting in medical examinations and other specific procedures, and providing translation services.  /span/pullispan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Prepare patients for examination and assist providers with the examination and/or procedure/span/lili style="color: black;"span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Take vital signs, height and weight of patients; plot growth charts; administer immunizations/span/lili style="color: black;"span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Perform laboratory and screening tests customarily performed in a medical office such as visual acuity, audiometric screening, Snellen tests, spirometry tests and EKG’s /span/lili style="color: black;"span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Give counseling, care and follow-up instructions, health education and materials to patients as instructed by provider/span/li/ul Qualifications: p style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"stronguspan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Minimum/span/u/strong/pp style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;" /pp style="padding-left: 40px;"• High school graduate or equivalentbr /• Clinical Medical Assistant Certificate from an approved school or hospital including externship verification of 6 months’ clinical/pp style="padding-left: 40px;"   (back office) MA experience may be submitted in lieu of externship)br /• Bilingual English/Spanishbr /• Current CPR/BLA Infant, Child and Adult certificationbr /• Phlebotomy experience/pp style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;" /pp style="margin-bottom: .0001pt;"stronguspan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Preferred /span/u/strong/pp style="padding-left: 40px;" /pp style="padding-left: 40px;"• span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"Minimum one year back office experience in a clinical environment/spanbr /span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;"• Phlebotomy certification/span/pp style="padding-left: 40px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"stronguspan style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;"Required Skills/Knowledge/Abilities/span/u/strong/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 40px;"• Good knowledge of general back office procedures, such as taking vitals, performing venipuncture, administering immunizations, etcbr /• Good comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology in English and Spanishbr /• Emergency response capability for possible crisis situationsbr /• Experience/familiarity with computers, Microsoft Office products (Word/Excel), business e-mail communication systems and internet search capabilities/pp style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 40px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongPay Range/strong/span/pulli$23.00 - $25.00/li/ulp style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 40px;" /p