Medical Assistant

Job Overview

Why Crescent Community Health Center? Crescent is a mission driven and patient centered organization. Crescent provides medical, dental and brain health services to the Greater Dubuque area including our most vulnerable populations. Crescent works hard to bring high quality affordable health care to all in our community. Crescent is a great place to work with competitive wages and benefits. If you are looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in the community, this is your chance.

The Medical Assistant will assist in the delivery of primary health care services and client care management in a fast-paced office setting. Under the supervision of the medical provider, participates in providing health promotion, health maintenance and illness management.

Working under the direct supervision of the Care Team RN, you will need to be able to prepare patients for the provider's office visit, greet and escort patients to the exam room. You'll do typical MA duties such as obtaining vitals, updating medical histories, and documenting in the electronic medical record. One of the things you'll need to do is ensure you can respond to any urgent or emergent needs of the patient. You'll also do injections as ordered, complete lab orders and arrange any imaging as needed. Basically, you are there to help the provider give the best care to our patients!

Successful applicants will be graduates from an accredited Medical Assistant program and a plus would be possessing a Medical Assistant certification. You'll also need to complete credentialing and privileging requirements as necessary. You must have at least one year of experience. You will also need to have experience with electronic medical records.

Completion of a pre-employment physical, TB test and drug screen is required.

EOE