Job ID: 2877
Location: Oakland, California
Category: Medical Assistant
Employment Type: Contract to Hire
Date Added: 08/29/2025
We are seeking a compassionate, patient-centered Certified Medical Assistant for a Contract to Hire role at a mission-driven community health clinic in Oakland, CA.
Location: West Oakland with occasional coverage of East Oakland locations.
Type: Contract-to-Hire
Hourly Pay Rate: $24
Shift: Monday – Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm, Saturdays 8:00am to 1:00pm as needed.
Key Responsibilities
- May perform both front office and back-office duties including registration, insurance verification, check-in and check-out.
- Monitor patient flow and recommend improvements for clinic efficiency.
- Take vital signs, intake patients, and prepare them for exams.
- Perform patient care tasks within medical assistant training, including patient history, ECG, specimen collection, venipuncture, injections, vital signs, charting, supply management, and sterile techniques.
- Conduct select physical exams (e.g., diabetic foot exams, audiograms).
- Collect blood specimens from patients of all ages.
- Carry out standing orders for lab tests, EKGs, chest X-rays, and other diagnostics.
- Sterilize and clean instruments using autoclave procedures.
- Provide patient education and exam instructions.
- Assist with maintaining medical records, immunization, and health registries.
- Prep charts before appointments.
- Support by answering calls, assisting staff, scheduling, and confirming appointments.
- Prepare forms for provider review.
- Process medication refills as ordered by the provider.
- Resolve minor patient issues and communicate patient concerns to supervisor or Provider as necessary.
- Will assist with patient outreach and work with Quality Improvement team to help close gaps in patient care.
- Provide patient education and instructions as directed by providers.
- Support services in Adult, OB, Pediatric, and Medical Records units
- Travel between West and East Oakland clinics as needed.
Experience and Credentials:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Medical Assistant Certification Required.Acceptable certifications include AAMA, AMT, NCCT, AMCA, CCBMA, CCMA, CACMA or NHA.
- Phlebotomy certification a plus
- Current CPR Certification.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Proficiency with EPIC HER
- Basic Microsoft Word/Excel skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to perform the duties and responsibilities described above.
- General knowledge of clinical terminology and normal ranges for vital signs.
- Ability to maintain consistent and reliable attendance.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- Language Skills: verbal and written fluency in English required.
- Bilingual skills in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, or Vietnamese, preferred but not required.
- Ability to communicate well with people of diverse cultural, professional and experiential backgrounds.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multi-disciplinary team.