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Job Title

Medical Assistant I

Agency

Texas A&M University Health Science Center

Department

Primary Care & Rural Medicine

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

Bryan, Texas

Job Type

Staff

Job Description

Join us at the Department of Primary Care & Rural Medicine (https://medicine.tamu.edu/departments/pcrm/index.html) at Texas A&M University and be a part of something extraordinary!

Glimpse of the Job

Are you ready to bring your skills to a team that transforms patient experiences? Join our Primary Care & Rural Medicine team and bring your expertise to support patients in our vibrant outpatient primary care clinic. As a Medical Assistant I, you'll be at the heart of patient care, performing essential tasks like measuring vital signs, recording patient medical histories, and administering immunizations or injections. Additionally, you will help maintain the cleanliness and safety of our exam and treatment rooms.

What you need to know

+ Salary: Starting at $15.85/hr.

+ Schedule: Full-time, 8am - 5pm Monday - Friday, with occasional extended hours

Requirements:

+ Education: High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience

+ Experience: Two years in a medical office, hospital, nursing home, or home health setting

+ Certification: Ability to obtain Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification within six months of employment

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Experience: Clinical setting experience

+ Certification: Medical Assistant Certification

+ Skills: Bilingual – English/Spanish

Some of the Responsibilities Include:

+ Patient Care: Provides patient care activities on a daily basis, transfers patients from reception to patient care areas, measures vital signs, interviews patients for medical records, assists and chaperones physician during exams or procedures, administers injections, dispenses medications, transfers specimens, documents testing and lab results in medical records, and documents other activities in the electronic medical records.

+ Clinic Responsibilities: Ensure cleanliness of exam and treatment rooms, exam tables, counter tops, and doorknobs to prevent spread of infection in patient care areas, stocks patient care rooms and nurses' stations weekly and as needed, participates in documentation of patient care, updates health information in electronic medical records, other duties as assigned.

Are you Ready to Make a Difference?

Join our dedicated team where your skills and passion for helping others are highly valued, and teamwork is at the core of everything!

Why Texas A&M University?

We are a prestigious university with strong traditions, Core Values, and a community of caring and collaboration.  Amenities associated with a major university, such as sporting and cultural events, state-of-the-art recreation facilities, the Bush Library and Museum, and much more await you.  Experience all that a big city has to offer but with a reasonable cost-of-living and no long commutes.

+ Medical, (https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/medical/) prescription drug, dental, (https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/dental/) vision, life and AD&D, (https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/life-add/) flexible spending accounts , and long-term disability insurance (https://www.tamus.edu/benefits/long-term-disability/) with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums

+ 12-15 days (https://employees.tamu.edu/employee-relations/leave/index.html) of annual paid holidays

+ Up to eight hours of paid sick leave (https://employees.tamu.edu/employee-relations/leave/paid/sick.html)  and at least   eight hours of paid vacation (https://employees.tamu.edu/employee-relations/leave/paid/vacation.html)   each month

+ Automatic enrollment in the  Teacher Retirement System of Texas (https://www.trs.texas.gov/Pages/Homepage.aspx)

+ Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time (https://flourish.tamu.edu/wellness-release-time/)

+ Professional Development: All employees have access to free   LinkedIn Learning (https://linkedinlearning.tamu.edu/)   training, webinars, and limited financial support to attend conferences, workshops, and more

+ Educational release time and tuition assistance (https://livingwell.tamu.edu/employee-tuition-assistance)  for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee

+ Living Well, (https://livingwell.tamu.edu/) a program at Texas A&M that has been built by employees, for employees

Instructions to Applicants: Applications received by Texas A&M University must either have all job application data entered, or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.