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Medical Assistant- Certified

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✓Requirements
Licensure
✓LPN requirements: current Maine LPN licensure or eligible for Maine LPN licensure
Certifications
✓Successful completion of a medical assistant program AND one of the following certifications or registrations: CCMA, CMA, NCMA, RMA.
✓Certification and/or registration must be maintained
✓In lieu of a formal medical assistant program, five years' experience as a Medical Assistant AND one of the following certifications or registrations: CCMA, CMA, NCMA, RMA.
✓OTHER SKILLS REQUIRED: Current CPR certification.
✓Must possess the degree of respiratory volume and upper body strength to perform CPR and other patient care treatments.
✓The successful candidate will be hired at a level commensurate with licensure and/or certification.
Education
✓MEDICAL ASSISTANT requirement(s): High school diploma or GED and successful completion of a medical assistant program or current student nearing completion of a Medical Assistant program. **Students encouraged to apply during externship
✓Must possess the degree of total body strength and flexibility necessary to assist patients with transfers and mobility.
✓Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center is a 411- bed, regional tertiary care hospital and an American College of Surgeons-verified Level II Trauma Center.
✓The region is home to high-performing public and private schools, including the University of Maine’s flagship campus in Orono.
Qualifications
✓2.
✓EXPERIENCE PEFERRED FOR ALL POSITIONS: Direct patient care in a health care facility. Ambulatory medical office setting. Experience with Cerner
✓Ability to obtain accurate vital signs and patient histories. Competent in use of computer software.
✓PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Flexibility, dexterity, visual acuity, hearing acuity, able to work sitting at workstation, using keyboard, working in front of a video display monitor, moderate walking throughout facility.
✓This individual must be able to lift approximately 15 pounds unassisted.
✓Reaching and stretching intermittently are required for assisting patients in the ambulatory setting.
✓Must be able to lift approximately a 200 lb. patient with the help of several other health care workers.
✓Patients are assisted in ambulating from the waiting room to exam rooms and back.
✓Portable O2 tanks are lifted onto racks from the floor to stretchers or wheelchairs.
✓Must be able to stretch, reach, and retrieve equipment from supply carts and to bend to reach equipment stored below the waist.
✓WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Busy, often stressful, ambulatory setting providing direct patient care to all age patients.
✓POSITION SUMMARY: provide support to medical practitioners providing patient care services in an ambulatory setting.
✓Responsibilities include both clinical and administrative duties necessary to provide quality patient care in a medical group practice setting.
✓Some of the duties include but are not limited to: assisting providers with procedures, conducting follow up with patients on lab and test results, rooming patients, obtaining ECG's, preloading and confirming office appointments.
Pay for this position
Employer-posted
$20.47 – $30.90/hr
Sign-on $3,000
Apply to Northern Light Health ↗
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✓You’ll need
Licensure
✓LPN requirements: current Maine LPN licensure or eligible for Maine LPN licensure
Certifications
✓Successful completion of a medical assistant program AND one of the following certifications or registrations: CCMA, CMA, NCMA, RMA.
✓Certification and/or registration must be maintained
✓In lieu of a formal medical assistant program, five years' experience as a Medical Assistant AND one of the following certifications or registrations: CCMA, CMA, NCMA, RMA.
✓OTHER SKILLS REQUIRED: Current CPR certification.
✓Must possess the degree of respiratory volume and upper body strength to perform CPR and other patient care treatments.
✓The successful candidate will be hired at a level commensurate with licensure and/or certification.
Education
✓MEDICAL ASSISTANT requirement(s): High school diploma or GED and successful completion of a medical assistant program or current student nearing completion of a Medical Assistant program. **Students encouraged to apply during externship
✓Must possess the degree of total body strength and flexibility necessary to assist patients with transfers and mobility.
✓Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center is a 411- bed, regional tertiary care hospital and an American College of Surgeons-verified Level II Trauma Center.
✓The region is home to high-performing public and private schools, including the University of Maine’s flagship campus in Orono.
Qualifications
✓2.
✓EXPERIENCE PEFERRED FOR ALL POSITIONS: Direct patient care in a health care facility. Ambulatory medical office setting. Experience with Cerner
✓Ability to obtain accurate vital signs and patient histories. Competent in use of computer software.
✓PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: Flexibility, dexterity, visual acuity, hearing acuity, able to work sitting at workstation, using keyboard, working in front of a video display monitor, moderate walking throughout facility.
✓This individual must be able to lift approximately 15 pounds unassisted.
✓Reaching and stretching intermittently are required for assisting patients in the ambulatory setting.
✓Must be able to lift approximately a 200 lb. patient with the help of several other health care workers.
✓Patients are assisted in ambulating from the waiting room to exam rooms and back.
✓Portable O2 tanks are lifted onto racks from the floor to stretchers or wheelchairs.
✓Must be able to stretch, reach, and retrieve equipment from supply carts and to bend to reach equipment stored below the waist.
✓WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Busy, often stressful, ambulatory setting providing direct patient care to all age patients.
✓POSITION SUMMARY: provide support to medical practitioners providing patient care services in an ambulatory setting.
✓Responsibilities include both clinical and administrative duties necessary to provide quality patient care in a medical group practice setting.
✓Some of the duties include but are not limited to: assisting providers with procedures, conducting follow up with patients on lab and test results, rooming patients, obtaining ECG's, preloading and confirming office appointments.

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