Medical Assistant – Internal Medicine

Medical Assistant – Internal Medicine

Join Cleveland Clinics Independence Family Health Center and become a part of one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. This patient-friendly facility offers primary care, express care and a wide array of specialties providing patients with the world-class care Cleveland Clinic is known for. Here, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career.

Independence Family Health Center provides comprehensive services for adults, such as diagnosing and treating health problems that require prompt attention, conducting general physical examinations and performing screenings, which may detect health problems early. Independence Family Health Center also offers care providers that specialize in providing primary care for adult patients and their family caregivers living with congenital intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD), including down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and autism. These primary care providers understand the unique needs of ID/DD patients and have extensive experience in helping meet those needs by providing compassionate, world class care in a welcoming, accepting, and supportive environment. In addition, primary care support is offered to ID/DD patients family caregivers. A caregivers physical, mental, and emotional wellness is essential not only to their own health, but to their loved ones care, well-being, and quality of life as well.

A caregiver in this position works a day/evening rotation of 7:00AM – 4:00PM.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

Assist with performing screenings and treatments by gathering and updating information related to health maintenance, identifying medication changes, updating allergy information, collecting specimens, performing tests and documenting patient care.

Monitor and communicate changes in patient condition.

Maintain equipment, medical supplies and examination areas.

Perform administrative/clerical duties, such as filing, reception, scheduling, data entry and patient registration.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

Graduate from an approved medical assisting program OR military training as a hospital Corpsman (HM), Combat Medic (68W) or Medical Service Technician (4N0X1).

Completion of a clinical externship OR extensive clinical experience.

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

Medical Assisting certification.

Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA). If you do not hold this certification, you must obtain it during your new hire period.

Successful completion of a Cleveland Clinic externship.

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Physical Requirements:

Manual dexterity to operate office equipment.

May require extended periods of standing, walking or sitting.

Good visual acuity through normal or corrected vision.

Light Work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.

Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

Note: The constant stress and strain of maintaining a production rate pace, especially in an industrial setting, can be and is physically demanding of a worker even though the amount of force exerted is negligible.

Personal Protective Equipment:

Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

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