medical assistant Tennessee
Job description
Float Medical Assistant (contracted) Job Snapshot
A Day on The Job
The Float Medical Assistant plays a vital role in achieving PPTNM’s mission by providing exemplary front office and back office services for our patients. This role will be primarily assigned to our Nashville center with assignments at our Knoxville location and the potential for occasional travel to Memphis. Throughout the day you may conduct a variety of tasks including patient check in/out insurance verification, determining and collecting service fees, financial record management, inventory, patient assessment, patient education, laboratory duties, venipuncture, instrument sterilization, procedure room set up and assistance, and medical record documentation.
Your Schedule
Must be able to report to any of the locations as scheduled Monday through Friday. Shifts will range between six and eight hours a day and will typically fall between the hours of 8:00a to 5:00p with an average of 32-40 hours a week.
Compensation
This is a contracted position, for a term of 12 to 16 weeks with extension possibilities and, an hourly rate of $25.00 for services provided at the health centers. If the assigned location is 45 miles or more from the contract holder’s home, the cost of authorized overnight lodging will be reimbursed by the company.
Your Team
You will work under the leadership of the Senior Manager of Health Center and with the close guidance of our center clinicians. You will be surrounded by a team of dedicated professionals committed to helping you succeed and to our patients having a nonjudgmental, unbiased and safe space.
Experience our In This Together culture where we tend to the team, we respect and honor all people, we jump in, we try and we learn, we care for our business and we always return to our mission.
We need someone who has:
- Earned at minimum a High School Diploma or GED
- Graduated from a Medical Assistant program or greater than three years of current medical assisting experience. A strong preference for Medical Assistant certification- CCMA, RMA, NRCMA
- BLS Certification
- At least one year of medical assistant experience in a high-volume urgent care, clinic or primary care setting or two or more years of experience as a medical assistant in other health care settings.
- Demonstrated confidence and competence in providing care to patients and managing their PHI.
- Confidence in performing venipuncture
- A valid Tennessee Driver’s License
COVID VACCINATION REQUIREMENT FOR CANDIDATES SEEKING EMPLOYMENT:
PPTNM, as both a healthcare provider and a participant of Medicare/Medicaid, is subject to certain laws, regulations and orders requiring its workforce to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and its variants. PPTNM has therefore implemented a requirement that all employees be fully vaccinated. Candidates seeking employment with PPTNM will be required to: (1) be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and its variants by their start date. Reasonable accommodations will be considered on a case-by-case basis for exemptions to this requirement in accordance with applicable law, and (2) submit proof of vaccination by their start date as a condition of employment with PPTNM.
Non-Discrimination Statement/Acknowledgement:
Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, disability, atypical hereditary cellular blood trait, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. PPTNM will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; and any subsequent revisions or additions to related law/regulations.
E-Verify Participation:
PPTNM participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
