Medical Coordinator (59426)

Summary of Position:

Circle the City is a rapidly growing non-profit dedicated to providing high-quality, holistic healthcare to people experiencing homelessness in Maricopa County. This clinic benefits from the designation as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and provides comprehensive primary care alongside fully integrated behavioral health and case management services to those experiencing homelessness each year.

The Medical Coordinator assures the continuity of client care, providing an essential link for communication involving all team members. Assists in the examination and treatment of patients under the direction of the physician and/or nurse manager. This is a safety-sensitive position.

Essential Duties:

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborates with clinical support team each shift to determine work assignments and priorities, as well as communicate the status of delegated task completion and outcome of patient data findings.

• Maintains timely, ongoing verbal communication to ensure good care of patients and the effective running of the clinic.

• Responsible for collecting, collating, and entering required data and information into the applicable database or format in an accurate and timely manner.

• Treats each patient in a manner that preserves and supports patient confidentiality, patient rights, and patient dignity.

• Checks inventories on a weekly basis, orders, and stocks supplies.

• Assist any patient with personal hygiene as needed.

• Assures a clean, orderly, and functional work environment.

• Escorts patients to off-site appointments as assigned by supervisor.

• Facilitates patient transportation.

• Assists with copying, faxing, and filing as needed.

• Phone coverage and triage of calls when necessary.

• Ability and willingness to perform medical assistant duties at mobile clinic sites.

• Performs other duties as required.

• Obtaining vitals, administering vaccinations and medical injections, basic wound care, call on prescriptions, drawing blood, process lab specimens, etc.

• Collect, verify, and register new patients, scan records to chart, etc.

• Process referrals, call for appointments, schedule transportation, request consult records, etc.

• Provides community resources, and assists with connecting to support services.

• Obtains vital records for patients, provides, and assists in housing applications, networks within the community for housing options, transports patients to locations for housing assistance/applications.

• Drives the Mobile Medical Unit, transports patients to the lab, imaging, pharmacy, and appointments.