Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) - Family Practice

About the job

Kaniksu Community Health is hiring a full-time certified medical assistant (CMA) for its family practice in Sandpoint, working under the director of nursing and medical providers as part of its Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) team. The CMA prepares rooms and patients, gives delegated care and medications, and handles provider orders such as prescriptions, lab requests and appointments.

Kaniksu Community Health is a nonprofit community health center in north Idaho that provides integrated, team-based medical, dental and behavioral health care for patients of all ages, whatever their ability to pay.

What you'll do

• Get treatment rooms ready, set out instruments and equipment, and room patients
• Give delegated patient care and therapeutic treatments within a scope of practice that matches your education, training and experience
• Give medications and injections and apply dressings following KCH policy and procedure for medical assistants
• Call in prescriptions according to written provider orders
• Following written provider orders, complete lab and diagnostic test requests and schedule patient appointments
• Help build a positive team environment as a good member of the PCMH team

What you need

• Graduation, at minimum, from an accredited medical assistant and/or nursing assistant program, with a current CMA credential
• The cognitive skills to understand medical instructions, spot problems and offer solutions
• Light typing and computer skills
• Demonstrated accuracy, proficiency and efficiency
• Effective people skills, including tactful, professional communication with patients and families

Preferred

• Experience at a community hospital, a community health center or in public health
• Experience using AthenaOne or a different EHR system

Schedule

• Full-time, 30 hours a week
• Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Education assistance and guided career pathways
• A 401(k) with a 4% employer match
• Affordable on-site childcare year-round at the KCH Kid's Club