Medical Assistant – Bilingual Spanish -School Health

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center’s School Health Program

Commitment to Providing Comprehensive Health and Mental Health Services to Public School Children

Our School-Based Health Center aims to:

• Promote good physical and mental health.
• Prevent illness leading to disability and hospitalization.
• Improve the delivery of primary and preventive healthcare services by ensuring that they are accessible, coordinated, comprehensive, collaborative, and skilled for all children and youth, including those with special health care needs.
• Facilitate learning and improve school attendance.
• Promote healthy living by providing school-based primary and preventive health care to medically underserved youth through community partnerships that include community health care providers and school districts.

Responsibilities:

• Working in a Pediatric Office Setting:
• Clerical and general office experience.
• Computer literacy (Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel).
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team environment.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work in a fast-paced, high-volume setting.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and time management skills.

Direct Patient Care:

• Manage the on-site medical room of the School Health Program and assist the medical provider in the provision of medical services.
• Attend and participate in school events, such as PTA meetings, Health Fairs, and staff meetings.
• Educate new school staff and parents about the Jamaica Hospital School Health Program.
• Provide direct patient care, including:
  Measuring height, weight, BP, temperature, pulse, and respiration.
• Performing phlebotomy and obtaining blood specimens.
• Preparing lab slips and coordinating pick-ups.
• Performing Point of Care Testing and Quality Control Testing, and maintaining all logs.
• Conducting vision and hearing screenings as part of physical examinations or in conjunction with school-wide screenings.
• Providing First Aid for minor complaints, identifying problems, and referring to the medical provider.
• Maintain temperature logs on the vaccine refrigerator/freezer.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date health insurance information in patient charts.
• Register patients in EPIC.
• Ensure a steady flow of students to the SBHC by retrieving students when needed.
• Perform any duties assigned by the physician, mid-level practitioner, and/or administrator.

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