Medical Assistant

Overview

Next Care strives to be the leader in high access healthcare, offering urgent care, occupational health, virtual health and primary care services to our patients. With services in eleven states (Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming) and over 165 urgent care clinic locations, we offer exceptional, affordable care to patients across the country.

At Next Care, we strive to provide the highest degree of caring, growth, integrity, results and teamwork. These core values form the foundation of our relationships with patients, customers, investors, partners and one another. High-performance standards guide clinical and business decisions, and our daily work reflects these standards to uphold quality and service in high access healthcare.

What We Are Looking For
Next Care Urgent Care is looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Medical Assistant who thrives in a fast-paced, team environment. We seek customer-friendly and passionate employees who make patients and employees a top priority.

• Assists provider with exams (including patient vitals), procedures and other processes related to direct patient care under direct supervision of the Provider and within the scope of practice of a Medical Assistant.
• Administers all forms of medications per policy and Provider direction and adheres to all safety protocols and procedures for medication administration.
• Performs blood draws as directed by the Provider.
• May be responsible for urine collection for various testing, including employer drug screens.
• May perform splinting and casting.
• Conducts physicals such as sports physicals.
• Performs other related duties in urgent care (e.g., ear lavage, wound care and oxygen administration).
• Notifies the provider on duty promptly of unusual patient occurrences including medication events on incident reports.
• Notifies the Clinic Manager of patient or employee safety concerns.
• Follows guidelines and requirements of laboratory and clinical accreditation policies.
• Must be proficient in EMR/EHR.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or described by company policy.

As a Medical Assistant, you may also support Front Office Reception. When working in the front office you will perform duties such as keeping patients and families informed of wait times, monitoring patient flow, processing patients for discharge (including preparing charges, collecting payment, obtaining signatures, and issuing receipts).

The Medical Assistant supports the organization with customer service and treating all patients with respect and dignity. They ensure the clinic and front reception area run smoothly and patient flow is optimized, while providing patient care services in the back office to meet patient needs.

ARIZONA

Education: Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent;
AND

• Completed an APPROVED (accredited) Medical Assistant training program.

OR

• Completed an UNAPPROVED (non-accredited) Medical Assistant training program AND a National Certification through one of the following:
• American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA) – CMA exam and certification; or
• American Medical Technologists (AMT) – RMA exam and certification; or
• National Health career Association (NHA) – CCMA exam and certification.

Benefits

Next Care offers full-time employees medical, health savings account, Next Care employee visit program, dental, vision, basic life, voluntary employee/spouse/child life, long-term disability, short-term disability, employee assistance program, critical illness, accident, legal, identity theft and paid time off benefits. Employees of all statuses are offered 401(k). Benefits are offered per policy and plan rules.