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Join the Cleveland Clinic Team at Chagrin Falls Family Health Center to experience patient care at its best. This patient-friendly facility offers the Chagrin Falls community primary care and additional specialty services. On our team, you will experience endless opportunities to enhance your skills, learn from your fellow caregivers and build a rewarding, lifelong career.

This position offers a unique opportunity to broaden their clinical experience by engaging in a wide range of responsibilities across patient care, compliance, and coordination with interdisciplinary teams. The role provides hands-on exposure to multiple facets of healthcare, making it an excellent opportunity for those looking to deepen their knowledge and skills. With a strong emphasis on professional development, this role serves as a solid foundation for continued growth within the clinical environment, setting it apart as a dynamic and rewarding career opportunity.

This position may be looking for an LPN in lieu of a Medical Assistant. As an LPN, you will assist fellow caregivers in providing exceptional, top-quality care to a diverse patient population. In this role, you can make a lasting difference in the lives of patients, all while enhancing your nursing skills through hands-on experience and numerous educational resources offered within the Cleveland Clinic system.

In lieu of a Medical Assistant or an LPN, an OCCA may be considered to fill this role. An Outpatient Clinical Care Assistant in this position is familiar with performing health screenings, collecting specimens, updating health records, keeping medical supplies stocked, maintaining examination areas, and monitoring, recording, and communicating patients' conditions. Outpatient Clinical Care Assistants also perform administrative duties, such as appointment scheduling and patient registration, which offer a unique learning opportunity to expand your skillset.

A caregiver in this position works 7:30am to 4:30pm with rotating evenings and weekends.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

+ Provide or assist with patient care in an outpatient clinic under the supervision of a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Independent Provider (LIP).

+ Complete the rooming process, including vitals, height, weight, intake questions, documentation and reporting abnormal findings.

+ Collect patient specimens, perform point of care testing and prepare specimens for transport to the lab.

+ Prepare patients for and assist with exams, tests and procedures, such as EKG, Holter monitor application, pulse oximetry, hearing and vision screening, disinfection and sterilization.

+ Administer treatments as directed, including the application of heat or cold, simple sterile dressing changes and applying/removing casts, braces and splints.

+ Review printed instructions with patients.

+ Assist with wound care.

+ Document in the electronic health record.

+ Assist with setting and closing the clinic.

+ Stock supplies and linens.

+ Clean, monitor expiration dates and restock dressing supply carts, check AED units and oxygen tanks, and empty needle boxes using appropriate safety measures.

+ Initiate CPR and other emergency measures.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

+ High School Diploma/GED

+ Understanding of human anatomy, basic patient care activities and math

+ Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (within new hire period)

+ One year of recent healthcare experience in a hospital or ambulatory, homecare, assisted living, nursing home or long-term care setting OR additional formal training/education

OR for a Medical Assistant:

+ Graduate from an approved Medical Assisting Program. (As designated by the Enterprise MA Steering Committee)

+ OR Military training as a Hospital Corpsman (HM), Combat Medic (68W) or Medical Service Technician (4N0X1) will be considered

+ Completion of a clinical externship (Extensive clinical experience may be considered in lieu of formal clinical externship)

+ Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (within new hire period)

+ Current demonstrated clinical proficiency

OR for an LPN

+ Graduate of an approved school of Practical Nursing

+ Current Ohio license as a Licensed Practice Nurse (LPN)

+ Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

+ Proficiency in the use of an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)

+ One year of patient car experience

+ Medical Assisting Certification

+ Successful completion of 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.

Pay Range

Minimum hourly: $19.75

Maximum hourly: $27.75

The pay range displayed on this job posting reflects the anticipated range for new hires. A successful candidate's actual compensation will be determined after taking factors into consideration such as the candidate's work history, experience, skill set and education. The pay range displayed does not include any applicable pay practices (e.g., shift differentials, overtime, etc.). The pay range does not include the value of Cleveland Clinic's benefits package (e.g., healthcare, dental and vision benefits, retirement savings account contributions, etc.).

Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities