About The Role

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.