Medical Assistant/MA/CNA/ LPN - Redhead Supports
Las Vegas, NV 89110
About the Job
We are looking for a person-centered, detail-oriented Medical Assistant/MA/CNA/LPN to help us provide the best support possible to the adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities we serve!
This person will work with our Medical Manager in monitoring, overseeing, and managing each client’s medications and overall health needs.
The health and well-being of the individuals we are privileged to serve is our chief concern—indeed, the foremost objective of the Redhead Supports Medical department is to constantly ensure that these individuals have the kind of health and medication oversight that we would want for our own loved ones.
This position will assist the Medical Manager to provide, model, and teach the sort of thorough, benevolent, and painstaking client health oversight and medication management that they would want for their own loved one.
Requirements
TOP THREE PRIORITIES:
1.Oversee All Medical Appointments
2.Filing
3.Insurance
4.Client Care
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
PRIORITY 1: Oversee All Medical Appointments.
1. Contact Program Managers to remind them of upcoming medical visits for their clients.
2. Transport clients and be present for all client medical visits (employee MUST have reliable transportation and maintain driver documents required by the State to safely transports adults with IDD throughout the duration of employment in this position).
3.Follow-up with Program Managers regarding the previous week's medical visits.
4. Review all incoming Medical Visit Forms and update the online system and schedule accordingly.
PRIORITY 2: Filing
4. Update client medical files.
5. The Medical Assistant will maintain client files as new clients enter Redhead Supports services.
6. Archive items from client medical files.
PRIORITY 3: Insurance
7. Track clients' insurance information.
8. The Medical Assistant will maintain a list of contact information for insurance companies.
9. The Medical Assistant will ensure we have an original of each client's insurance card(s) on file, and each client has a copy of them on file.
PRIORITY 3: Client Care
10.Insure that all individuals receive the best quality of care on a daily basis.
11.Oversee/Participate in/Demonstrate proper hygiene, grooming, health, safety of all individuals on a daily basis.
12.Complete all daily/weekly/monthly documentation for each individual. This includes ADL's, MAR, Behavior Reports, Incident Reports etc.
13.Follow company reporting protocols
OTHER
14. Assist in medication removal and destruction as needed.
15. Search for and contact Home Health agencies that can provide services for our clients at their homes
16. Contact physicians' offices for obtaining documentation of medical visits, following up on prescriptions refills, or the occasional scheduling of client medical visits
17. Inform Medical Manager upon receiving any information regarding clients' medical needs
18. Receive and document medication arrival from pharmacy
19. Distribute medications to the houses
20. Attend monthly Weekly Manager Meeting, as needed or as invited
21. Write and send a thank-you card weekly
22. Other duties as assigned by Medical Manager
23. Participate in Month End Paperwork
24. Maintain regular contact with the pharmacy throughout each week, in order to keep a current list of upcoming needs regarding prescription refills
25. Conduct Medication Administration and CPR/First Aid trainings on a monthly basis
26. Track annual physical exams and other associated documents to ensure that they are renewed prior to the expiration date
27. Participate in medical visits, either in person or via TeleMed (depending on the need); must provide transportation if needed
28.Other tasks or assignments that may be giving to support the individuals in the homes.
29. Assist persons served with maintain good hygiene, including nail trimming, hair cuts, etc., as needed
Pay is DOE (not less than $17.00/hr)
MISSION STATEMENT
WE, THE PEOPLE OF REDHEAD SUPPORTS, HUMBLY DESIRE TO MAKE A POSITIVE AND DEFINABLE DIFFERENCE IN OUR WORLD. WE INTEND TO ACCOMPLISH THIS VERY AMBITIOUS DESIRE BY USING LOVE, KINDNESS, HONESTY AND SERVICE TO OTHERS. WE WILL MAKE ALL COMPANY DECISIONS BASED ON A CHRISTIAN CONCERN FOR ALL PEOPLE. WE STRIVE TO IMPROVE AND ENHANCE THE LIVES OF EACH AND EVERY PERSON WE MEET: OUR FAMILIES, OUR EMPLOYEES, OUR CLIENTS, AND ALL OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. WE BELIEVE IT IS A PRIVILEGE AND A GIFT FROM HEAVENLY FATHER TO LIVE NOW UPON THIS BEAUTIFUL EARTH DURING THESE WONDERFUL YET CHALLENGING TIMES, IN THIS GREAT GOD-GIVEN COUNTRY. WE INTEND TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES EVERYONE WE ASSOCIATE WITH; OUR FAMILIES, OUR CLIENTS, OUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR BUSINESS ASSOCIATES AS WE DEDICATED OUR LIVES TO SERVICE IN THE VINEYARD OF OUR MAKER.