CARE TEAM ASSOCIATE-AMBULATORY - COLUMBIA-AREA CLINIC FLOAT POOL - PRN
 MU Health Care | |
dental insurance, paid time off, tuition assistance
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 United States, Missouri, Columbia | |
| 1 Hospital Drive (Show on map) | |
 Jul 30, 2025 | |
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Shift:Shifts are available Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm
ABOUT THE JOB MU Health Care is seeking a caring and dynamic Care Team Associate - Ambulatory to join our Clinic Float Pool. If you have exceptional interpersonal skills and a passion for patient care, you're who we want. In this role, you'll be the welcoming face in our clinics, ensuring patient comfort and engagement. You'll manage multiple tasks efficiently, document medical history, and assist during examinations. Your responsiveness to patient needs will elevate their experience. Join us in delivering exceptional healthcare with heart and integrity. Your talents will shine here ABOUT MU HEALTH CARE At MU Health Care, we have an inspired, hard-working and collaborative environment driven by our mission to save and improve lives. We believe anything is possible and rally around solutions. We celebrate innovation and offer opportunities to be a part of something bigger - to have a voice and role in the work that is serving our community and changing the field of medicine. Our academic health system - the only in mid-Missouri - is home to multiple hospitals, including the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and region's only Children's Hospital as well as over 90 specialty clinics. Here, you can define your career among our many clinical and nonclinical positions - with growth, opportunity and support every step of the way. Learn more about MU Health Care. Learn more about living in mid-Missouri. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION Confirm the purpose for each visit, verify patient information by interviewing the patients, reviewing, or recording medical history, completing the clinic visit form, taking vital signs, and documenting this information in Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Prepare patients for the health care visit by providing examination gowns and drapes, positioning patients for examination or treatment, and arranging examining room instruments, supplies, and equipment. Demonstrate the ability to organize workload and manage multiple tasks. Prompt responsiveness to patient needs and delivery of messages to the care team. Support care delivery by helping health care providers during examinations, preparing laboratory specimens, performing basic laboratory tests on specimens, disposing of contaminated supplies, sterilizing medical instruments, preparing patients for x-rays, taking electrocardiograms, changing dressings, removing IVs, point of care glucose testing, performing venipuncture to obtain a blood sample, and maintaining quality control checks. Maintain stock levels and order clinic supplies. Keep equipment operating by following operating instructions, troubleshooting breakdowns, maintaining supplies, performing preventive maintenance, and calling for repairs. May complete unit/department-specific duties and expectations as outlined in department documents. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS One of the following: --Completion of a Fundamentals of Nursing course; or --Certified Nursing Assistant certification (CNA) or Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) exam registration; or --Direct patient care experience in the past three (3) years as a medical assistant, nursing assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician; or --Completion within the last three (3) years of an Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) training program; or --Nursing licensure candidate who was unsuccessful on the state licensure examinations in the past three (3) years; or --Completion of a nursing program outside the United States and is awaiting the licensure examination in this country; or --Completion of the MU Health Care CTA-A specific training through the Center for Education and Development (CED) within thirty (30) days of start date. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Additional license/certification requirements as determined by the hiring department. PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. This position is very active and requires ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 lbs. This role also routinely comes into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses. This position is in an ambulatory setting associated with an academic health system. Hours are established by each clinic but are generally, 800 a.m. to 500 p.m. Monday - Friday. Work during inclement weather will be required. Equal Employment Opportunity The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer. | |