Medical Assistant

Company: Optum
Location: Torrance
Posted on: March 20, 2020

Job Description:

Position Overview:

* Primary Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8AM-5PM
* Department: Primary Care (Internal Medicine/ Family Practice)
* Location: Torrance, CA

As a Medical Assistant at HealthCare Partners Medical Group you'll provide service excellence in patient care - working as a teammate with a clinician, RN or LVN to perform procedures and assist with minor surgical procedures. You'll work both face-to-face with patients and behind the scenes to ensure that we provide quality care. You'll be an integral member of the coordinated care team.

As a team we'll make an impact in the lives of over 1,700,000 patients and more than 12,000 teammates. With opportunities in California, Washington, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada and Florida there's room for you to grow, learn and develop your career as we grow.

We invest in our teammates' personal and professional growth and we'll invest in you when you join the team. You'll commit to our vision and we'll work together as we build the greatest healthcare community the world has ever seen.

What's required?

* You have 1 or 2 years of post-high school education or a degree from a two-year college.
* You're a graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant program.
* You have a Phlebotomy certificate
* You're Basic Life Support for Healthcare providers (AHA) or CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer (American Red Cross) certified.
* You have up to one year of experience as a Medical Assistant.

It'd be even better if (#Preferred):

* You've worked as a Medical Assistant for more than a year.
* You've had 1+ years' experience in a specialty field.

What's the first thing that happens when one of the leading independent medical groups in the country comes together with a global leader in health care? Opportunity. With DaVita Medical Group, HealthCare Partners, The Everett Clinic, Northwest Physicians Network, MountainView Medical Group and Magan Medical Clinic joining OptumCare and the UnitedHealth Group family of companies, people like you will find increasing levels of challenge, impact and professional success. We're changing health care for the better by improving access to affordable, high quality care, and working together to improve the patient experience. That takes passion, commitment, intense focus and the ability to contribute effectively in a highly collaborative team environment. Are you with us? Learn more about this exciting opportunity to do your life's best work.(SM)

Careers with OptumCare. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health - related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. OptumCare, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Here you'll find incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(SM)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: OptumCare and its affiliated medical practices are Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. OptumCare and its affiliated medical practices is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing and background verification checks.

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