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The Medical Assistant is responsible to provide assistance to medical providers at the Belknap Campus and/or Health Sciences Center (HSC) clinics. This position manages patient flow; situates patients in exam rooms; takes patient vitals; assists physicians with exams; completes referrals; draws blood; gives immunizations and injections; and performs EKGs, diagnostic tests, and triage lab tests. The Medical Assistant maintains and rotates clinic stock, tracking expiration dates. This position also assists with new hire and temporary staff training. The Medical Assistant is also cross-trained to perform front desk duties and procedures at both campus clinics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages patient flow, situates patients in exam rooms, and takes patient vitals

• Cleans exams rooms daily and between patients and maintains exam room stock inventory

• Administers immunizations and other injections, assists with Pap smears and minor surgeries, draws blood, and assists providers during appointments as needed

• Performs EKGs, other diagnostic tests, and triage lab tests

• Maintains and stocks medication and vaccines, rotates stock, and checks medication expiration

• Assists in training new hire and temporary medical assistants

• Opens and closes clinic as required, schedules appointments, checks phone messages, reconcile fee tickets and money, scans records, and prepares referrals and prescription refills

• Forwards questions, concerns, messages, and faxes to providers as necessary and assist with patient callbacks

• Attends departmental meetings and performs other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Two (2) years of medical clinic experience

• Experience using a computer and Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)

• Experience using EHR software

• BLS certification for healthcare providers

Work Hours and Location

This is a full-time, non-exempt position with a 40-hour regular workweek. Additional work hours may be required based on department needs, programming, staffing, and/or scheduling. This position will work at the Belknap Campus and/or the HSC clinics.

Employee Benefits

The University of Louisville offers competitive benefits and perks to eligible full-time and part-time employees. Please visit the University of Louisville Benefits webpage for details.

Student Affairs

The Division of Student Affairs encourages candidates to apply who have demonstrated the capacity to create supportive work environments, collaborate effectively on teams, and serve the students we admit and aim to attract.

Please submit a resume, cover letter, and three professional references with your application.

Compensation will be commensurate to candidate experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Louisville is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. The University strives to provide equal employment opportunity on the basis of merit and without unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, or pregnancy. In accordance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veteran Readjustment Act of 1974, the University prohibits job discrimination of individuals with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, qualified special disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, and other protected veterans. The University acknowledges its obligations to ensure affirmative steps are taken to ensure equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. It is the policy of the University that no employee or applicant for employment be subject to unlawful discrimination in terms of recruitment, hiring, promotion, contract, contract renewal, tenure, compensation, benefits, and/or working conditions. No employee or applicant for employment is required to endorse or condemn a specific ideology, political viewpoint, or social viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, or promotion.

Consistent with applicable law, demographic information is collected for aggregate reporting requirements. Demographic information provided through this application is not available to hiring managers/committees and is not considered in hiring or employment decisions.

Assistance and Accommodations

Computers are available for application submission at the Human Resources Department located at 2315 South First Street Walk, Room 02C - Louisville, Kentucky 40292.

If you require assistance or accommodation with our online application process, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by phone 502-852-6258.