Medical Assistant - $2,000 Sign on Bonus - Portland, OR

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We would love to meet you no matter your experience level! Optum is interested in speaking with MAs directly out of their externship all the way up to Senior-level MAs with years of experience. We also offer a $1000 sign-on bonus to all new MA’s with an additional $1000 paid after 1 year of employment, full benefits, and some of the best coworkers and work environment you’ll find in your career!

Our mission at Family Medical Group is to deliver high quality medical are available in a caring, compassionate, personable and welcoming environment. As a Patient Centered Primary Care clinic we strive to achieve these goals by focusing on: wellness and prevention, coordination of care, and active management and support of individuals with special health care needs. We also promote a patient and family-centered approach to all of the aspects of patient care. Here at Family Medical Group Northeast we emphasize whole-person care in order to address each individual patient’s and each family’s physical and behavioral health care needs. Make a difference in the lives of others as you do your life's best work.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Welcome patients by greeting them in person or on the telephone: answering or referring inquiries
• Verifies patient information by interviewing patient; reviewing and/or recording medical history, taking vital signs, confirming purpose of visit or treatment
• Supports patient care delivery by helping health care providers during exams; preparing laboratory specimens, performing basic laboratory tests on the premises, disposing of contaminated supplies, sterilizing medical instruments, administering medications on the premises, authorizing drug refills as directed, telephoning prescriptions to pharmacies, drawing blood, preparing patients for x-rays, taking electrocardiograms, removing sutures, changing dressings
• Completes records by recording patient examination, treatment, and test results
• Reliably track care needs, communicating with patients and providers
• Proactively calls patients to ensure annual exams or follow up visits are scheduled
• Undergoes ongoing training sessions required to hold verifications: Ex: CPR, CMA
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping patient care information confidential
• Enhances health care practice reputation by taking ownership, showing flexibility by accomplishing new and different requests, exploring opportunities to add value to job performance

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma
• Current BLS certification at time of hire
• Medical Assistant certification received from a nationally recognized and accredited certifying body (must obtain within 60 days of hire)
• Professional phone etiquette and ability to effectively work a multi-line phone system
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High level interpersonal skills, including customer service
• Demonstrated record of reliable attendance and punctuality
• Solid phlebotomy skills
• Clinic setting experience

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

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OptumCare is committed to creating an environment where physicians focus on what they do best: care for their patients. To do so, OptumCare provides administrative and business support services to both owned and affiliated medical practices which are part of OptumCare. Each medical practice part and their physician employees have complete authority with regards to all medical decision-making and patient care. OptumCare’s support services do not interfere with or control the practice of medicine by the medical practices or any of their physicians.

**PLEASE NOTE** The Sign On Bonus is only available to external candidates. Candidates who are currently working for a UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare or a related entity in a full time, part time, or per diem basis (“Internal Candidates”) are not eligible to receive a Sign On Bonus.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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