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Medical Assistant

Riggs Community Health·Lafayette, Indiana

$18 - $24/hr·Unknown·On Site·0-2 yrs·Posted 10 days ago
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About the role

Prepare patients for examinations by taking vitals and collecting specimens while assisting providers with special procedures. Manage clinical administrative tasks including triage, scheduling, and maintaining medical records and supplies.

  • ***riggs offers one of the highest compensation packages for medical assistants in the region**
  • Riggs MA's start between $18-24/hour based on experience and/or certification. Check out our website to see real career stories from our team. Want to know more? Just ask our MA's why they enjoy working with Riggs CHC!

Riggs team members bring compassionate health care to our community!

Ask us why Riggs MA's overwhelmingly love their team, patients, and what they do everyday!

We also pay for your AMAA certification if you haven't received it yet but please note that you must still have completed a MA program with a certificate or degree to be eligible.

Eligible candidates can meet the team in a transparent interview process.

Whether you're just starting your career or looking for the next big step, you'll love what Riggs has to offer!

Riggs Community Health Center is a top-rated non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). We are seeking Certified Medical Assistants (active AAMA® certification) with service and community minded individuals to join our highly skilled care teams who provide much needed outpatient medical care to an under-served community. At Riggs you will grow to the top of your scope in a friendly, professional, and patient-centered team setting.

Riggs Community Health Center...Improving Health, Improving Lives.

Riggs Medical Assistants enjoy predictable 40 hour work weeks with no nights or overtime, and only limited Saturdays if needed.

Riggs focuses on balance with a schedule you can plan your family life around.

All full-time employees have access to low-cost, comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, up to $700 HSA Employer Contributions, Short & Long Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401(k), 8 Paid Holidays, 3 Weeks PTO, Education Reimbursements, Certification Funds, Bonus, and more!

We are happy to schedule time for you to meet the team before making a commitment.

Essential Duties

  • Prepares patients for examination: Greets patients, reviews symptoms, treatment, and past health/medical history, takes B/P, weight, height, temperature, and other measurements such as peak flow and/or vitals as appropriate to complete health assessment in clinical area, performs vision, hearing screenings and spirometry if appropriate, obtains blood, urine, and sputum specimens as appropriate, and assists with laboratory requisitions and assures lab pick-up.
  • Assists with patient scheduling and encounter forms.
  • Answers and triages telephone calls and callbacks as instructed by registered nurse, nurse practitioner and/or physician.
  • Cleans and stocks examination rooms and maintains room cleaning schedule.
  • Responsible for set-up, assisting and post-cleaning for special procedures such as colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, sigmoidoscopy, aspirations, wart removal, etc.
  • Maintains clinical records and logs for clinical area.
  • Responsible for ordering, maintaining, and inventory of medical, office, and laboratory supplies for clinical area.
  • Files charts, lab reports, patient forms and information in the medical records.
  • Requests medical records from other health care providers.
  • Assists with chart flow/medical records in Riggs CHC and for other providers.
  • Assists with indigent medication assistance program.
  • Assists with the planning and implementation of programs for patients and families to increase awareness of relevant medical conditions, decrease risk-behaviors, and increase responsibility for self-care.
  • Attends and participates in in-service education for staff, quality assurance program, and risk-management programs.
  • Relieves and substitutes for other medical assistants in other clinical areas as needed for clinic operations and/or other clerical staff as needed.

40 hour/week. No Overtime. Limited Saturdays on rotation possible. 4-Day work week: 7:30-6:30 (10hr shifts) with an assigned day off.

Requirements

Candidates must have completed a Medical Assistant program with a certificate or degree. An active AAMA certification is required or must be obtained using provided funds.

  • professional certificate
  • Patient Education
  • Patient Preparation
  • Triage
  • Vital Signs Monitoring
  • Specimen Collection
  • Patient Scheduling
  • Spirometry
  • Clinical Record Maintenance
  • Hearing Screenings
  • Vision Screenings
  • Medical Inventory Management
  • Laboratory Requisitions

Benefits

  • Dental Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Paid Holidays
  • Vision Insurance
  • Medical Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • PTO
  • Short Term Disability
  • Long Term Disability
  • Bonus
  • Education Reimbursements
  • HSA Employer Contributions
  • Certification Funds

Posting details

Employment type
Unknown
Work arrangement
On Site
Experience
0-2 yrs
Salary
$18 - $24/hr
Location
Lafayette, Indiana
Posted
Jul 17, 2026
Application
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Hiring organization

Riggs Community Health

As one of over 8,000 Community Health Centers nationwide, we take pride in serving you by offering access to quality healthcare to more than 13,000 men, women and children in Tippecanoe and surrounding counties.

Salary listed on 6 jobs
IndustryHospitals and Health Care
TypeNonprofit
Size51-200 employees
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