Sr Clinic Assistant - Student Health Services

Major/Essential Functions

• Welcomes patients warmly with compassion and enthusiasm.
• Listens carefully to patient needs presented face to face or over the telephone and communicates clear and accurate information in response to all members of the health care team.
• Implements teaching plans for patients and their families with well-defined health learning needs. 
• Reports data, identifies and reports alterations in patient responses to assist in the identification of problems and formulation of goals/ outcomes and patient-centered plans of care in collaboration with patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team. 
• Works collaboratively with other health care team members to ensure patient needs are met and clinic operations are efficient.
• Communicates with patients via telephone per clinic protocols. 
• Prepares and operates necessary equipment and instruments for examination, treatments and procedures. 
• Assists with or performs exams and procedures and documents intervention in EMR. 
• Takes and records accurate vital signs and measurements. 
• Communicates patient data using EMR to support decision-making to improve patient care. 
• Maintains inventory of supplies in examination and procedure rooms. 
• Participates in the identification of patient needs for referral to resources and facilitating continuity of care. 
• Assists in determining the physical and mental health status, needs, and preferences of culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse patients and their families. 
• Assists the Nursing Team Leader with the development and implementation of clinic goals and objectives, to facilitate improved patient outcomes. 
• Manages refill requests and administers medications to patients following policies and procedures for medication management.
• Completes Annual Nursing Core Competency Training and Skills Fair. 
• Participates in emergency preparedness drills in the department. 
• Attends nursing staff meetings. 

• Experience working in a hospital, ambulatory clinic, or community-based setting.
• CPR/BLS Certified.
• Electronic Health Records (EHR) experience.
• Experience in collecting specimens for point-of-care testing.
• Experience in patient assessment and intake.
• Experience with medication administration and reconciliation.

• Provides nursing support to the community-based Family Medicine Clinic when resources allow. 
• Helps with outreach opportunities for the TTU campus.

• Health Plans + Supplemental Coverage Options – Individual health insurance provided at no cost for full-time team members
• Paid Time Off – Including holidays, vacation, sick leave and more
• Retirement Plans
• Wellness Programs
• Certified Mother-Friendly Workplace