MEDICAL ASSISTANT, MON - FRI, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Description

InterCommunity is a 2025 Healthcare Top Workplace winner!

VOTED a Top Workplace for 13 Years! - Hartford Courant, 2023.

InterCommunity, Inc is a FQHC LA (Federally Qualified Health Center Look Alike). Our health center provides same-day primary care services to every member of the community, regardless of life situation or ability to pay. We also provide a wide array of behavioral health services. 

Our community Health Care Centers are located at 281 Main St. East Hartford, 40 Coventry St. Hartford and 828 Sullivan Ave., South Windsor. InterCommunity’s Addiction Services offers a similarly wide range of substance use treatment and recovery-supportive services, with many sites in the Hartford area. 

We provide services across the spectrum of care, including primary care, residential detoxification and substance use treatment, multiple levels of residential care, outpatient substance use disorder and mental health services for adults and children, intensive outpatient programs, employment and community support, mobile crisis evaluations, judicial support services and social rehabilitation.

AMAZING Benefits!

At Intercommunity, we believe our benefits should make a difference to you, to your family and to the life you lead outside of work. Benefits are more valuable than ever before and are a significant part of our total compensation package. InterCommunity offers a choice of medical plan options so you can choose the plan that best meets your needs and those of your family.

All benefit- eligible employees of InterCommunity are eligible for Medical, Dental, Voluntary Vision, Group Life, Supplemental Life, Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. (A benefit -eligible employee is one who is schedule to work a minimum of 30 hours per week.). In addition, all employees may contribute to our 401k and those who meet eligibility and service requirements will receive the company contribution. Benefits are effective on the first day of the month following date of hire.

Benefits:

• Work Life-Balance-Flexibility, generous Paid PTO, and paid holidays. 
• Health & Dental insurance- with flexible contribution options to include 2 HDHP w/ HSA enrollment option or non-HDHP at a minimal cost to employees.
• Voluntary vision.
• STD, LTD & Disability coverage - employer paid.
• Basic Life & AD&D employer paid.
• Supplemental Life Insurance available.
• 401(k) with 3% employer give and 3% employer match after 12 months and 1,000 hours worked.
• Career advancement opportunities.

Eligibility Requirements:

All benefit-eligible employees (scheduled to work a minimum of 30 hours per week) are eligible for medical, dental, voluntary vision, group life, STD, and LTD coverage. Benefits take effect on the first day of the month following the hire date.

Summary:

Accountable for providing a full range of administrative and medical support responsibilities in a community health setting.   

Works under medical supervision of CMO, MD and APRN, general supervision of Practice Manager and Director of Practice

Management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Escorts patients to exam room and prepared for MD or APRN
• Verifies patient information by interviewing the patient, recording medical history, review of medications, screening
• tools; confirming purpose of the visit and enters into medical record.
• Accurately obtains and records vital signs
• Performs office procedures including but not limited to CLIA waived point of care testing, EKG, phlebotomy, and
• spirometry as ordered by a medical provider.
• Maintains effective and organized systems to ensure timely patient flow in accordance with agency standards
• Ensures lab results are reviewed and signed by provider and disseminated as needed.
• May conduct client education groups and training as directed by provider and/or supervisor.
• Will participate as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team in the assessment, development, implementation
• and evaluation of client’s treatment or health/mental health care plans.
• Maintains medical office instruments, equipment, and supplies and ensures cleanliness of equipment and
• environment in compliance with regulatory and agency standards.
• Maintains all logs and required checks (e.g., refrigerator temperatures, emergency medications, expired medications,
• oxygen, eye wash station)
• Conducts pre-visit planning by reviewing and updating patient