Medical Assistant

Overview

Jefferson Center is seeking a Medical Assistant to join our Recovery Clinic
, a substance use focused collaborative care team. Our phase-based care model will help people thrive by continuously revolutionizing healthcare delivery, using a data-driven and team-based approach. Phase-based care is an interdisciplinary treatment approach rooted in team collaboration, data, and measurement, where each member contributes their expertise. The latest team-based clinical practices and tools are employed to help those in need get better fast and maintain their health and wellbeing long-term.

Values:
The people we serve want choice in how they receive services, and it is our job to honor choice. The people we serve have complex challenges and a team model best supports solving those complex challenges. Showing health improvements via measurable outcomes is an important responsibility of providers, both to the people we serve and to those that fund those services.

Goals:
While our phase-based care model has many goals, there are three primary objectives worth emphasizing: (1) dramatic reduction in wait times for accessing care and wait times between interventions in the initial phase of care, (2) increase our resilience to industry wide staffing shortages and record high community demand, and (3) decrease staff burnout.

• In addition to the primary role in treating and caring for consumers, responsibilities include educating consumers and the public about a variety of medical conditions related to substance use such as HIV, TB and Hepatitis C, as well as providing emotional support and advice to the families of their consumers.
• Provide injections for clients under direction from prescribing authority and medical team. Complete UA’s as needed.
• Perform routine medical procedures (vitals, including blood pressure, oxygen levels, temperature, blood alcohol levels, drug testing, pregnancy testing).
• Collaborate with local public health departments in the effort to prevent harm from substance use, including needle distribution/recovery. Distribute sterile needles and other harm reduction supplies, recover used needles and other supplies, and provide information and containers for safe disposal. Assist in the coordination of HIV, TB, Hepatitis and other infectious disease screening and referral for testing to the local health departments.
• Collaborate with the telehealth psychiatrist and other Jefferson Center programs.
• Engage child and adult consumers and their families in the treatment process and goal-setting.
• Identify risk factors including lethality for suicide, homicidal and/or grave disability. Work with consumers and the MAT team to reach agreed upon outcomes, and coordinate care with internal and external providers. As appropriate, complete involuntary mental health holds (27-65) according to Center protocol.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills to develop therapeutic alliance with consumers and to work effectively and with cultural competence with consumers from diverse backgrounds.
• Coordinate prescription and PAP refills; respond to all refill requests within 3 business days.
• Review and order labs, notify prescriber of any abnormal labs requiring immediate attention.
• Assist prescribers in tracking and meeting time frames for annual labs and AIMs.
• Ensure compliance with OBH, Signal and OSHA regulations.
• Coordinate medication processing and applications with PAP office.
• Order/stock and reconcile the medication cabinets and order medical supplies for the mobile unit as needed.
• Provide consumers with (MAT) and other medication education.
• Monitor consumers for side effects of meds, including AIMS testing or any medical condition that may affect their mental illness.
• Monitor and review consumers’ charts for medication/medical issues with appropriate follow-up.
• Coordinate care with consumers’ prescribers, including documentation of medical medications & dosing, physical diagnoses, monitoring of potential medication interactions with MAT and/or psychiatric medications, and referrals as indicated.
• Ensure Medicaid eligibility and submit prior authorizations to consumers’ insurance in a timely…