Job Description

Benefits

• Paid Time Off & Paid Company Holidays
• Medical, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• $0 Copay for Legacy Provider visits
• $0 Copay for prescriptions filled at Legacy Pharmacies
• Travel Insurance & Pet Insurance
• Subsidized Gym Membership
• And much more!

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Location: Various Legacy Clinics

Medical Assistant Float - Beaumont (Job Overview)

Schedule: Monday-Friday (8AM-5PM)

As a Medical Assistant - Float, you will bring compassion, flexibility, and clinical skill to multiple clinics, helping providers deliver timely, respectful care to patients and families. You’ll support examinations and minor office procedures while creating a welcoming experience where each patient feels informed, heard, and comfortable.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys variety and making a difference wherever support is needed. Coverage is based on business and patient volume, and you may travel between clinics during your assigned shift. As part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, you’ll help keep care moving smoothly across the community.

Make a Meaningful Difference

• Support high-quality primary care services that strengthen community healthcare.
• Work alongside providers and multidisciplinary teams within a primary care medical home model.
• Help promote timely access to care, continuity of care, culturally sensitive communication, and whole-person health.
• Contribute to safe, organized, and welcoming clinical environments for patients, families, visitors, and coworkers.
• Build valuable experience across multiple clinic settings while responding to patient and team needs.

A Collaborative Place to Grow

• Join a team-based care environment focused on patients and families.
• Blend direct patient support, clinical procedures, room preparation, documentation, and clinic readiness.
• Strengthen your skills through required safety education, annual training, and participation in performance improvement activities.
• Bring adaptability, professionalism, and a collaborative spirit to a dynamic float assignment.
• Find fulfillment in work that connects your daily efforts to better access and outcomes in community healthcare.

Key Responsibilities

• Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
• Record patients' medical history, vital statistics and information such as test results in medical records.
• Collect blood, tissue or other laboratory specimens, logging/documenting, and prepare them for testing.
• Assist physicians to examine and treat patients, handing them instruments and materials, performing such tasks as giving injections and removing sutures.
• Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, to include cleaning and restocking.
• Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies.
• Phone consultation with clients regarding test results & health concerns.
• Process blood and other specimens, ensuring all specimens are properly labeled and packaged for lab pick up.
• Perform phlebotomy and other diagnostic tests as needed.
• Administer oral, intramuscular, SubQ, and topical medications as ordered.
• Ensure proper documentation of patient care.
• Ensure all exam rooms are stocked with supplies; checking exam room stock for expired dates and changing out sharps containers/ biohazard waste as needed.
• Assist with programs such as the Hazard Communication and Accident Prevention plans associated with OSHA compliance.
• Participate in the Performance Improvement Program.
• Demonstrate respect and regard for the dignity of all patients, families, visitors, and fellow employees to ensure a professional, responsible and courteous environment.
• Promote effective working relations and works effectively as part of a team to facilitate the department’s ability to meet its goals and objectives.
• Work within the context of a primary care medical home, applying a team based approach to care while working in partnership with patients/families to promote timely access to care, understanding of patient care that is culturally sensitive and language appropriate, continuity of care, and the improvement of the whole-person through the teaching of appropriate self-management skills.
• Attend all required safety training programs and is knowledgeable of his/her responsibilities related to general safety, department/service safety, and specific job–related hazards.
• Attend all required safety education programs.
• Operate assigned equipment and performs all procedures in a safe manner as instructed.
• Maintain work area and equipment in accordance to Legacy and government policies/requirements.
• Demonstrate proper body mechanics in all functions.
• Check on the patient’s environment and equipment to ensure safety.
• Reports safety concerns promptly to appropriate personnel.
• Follow Legacy’s exposure control plans/blood-borne and airborne pathogens.
• Demonstrate knowledge of techniques, procedures, and correct use of protective barrier equipment (Universal Precautions).
• Ensure a safe environment by instituting appropriate control measures.
• Attend annual education programs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• BLS/CPR Certification required

Required Years of Experience

• Up to one year experience

Desirable Education and/or Experience

• Up to three years’ experience

Required Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

• Excellent communication skills and customer service skills.
• Basic front desk, clerical or healthcare support specialist skills/experience
• Ability to work with clinical staff, works well under pressure, and multitask within a multidisciplinary team
• Commitment to the concepts of preventive health care and team approach to health care delivery
• Experience working with computers
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications.

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities

• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
• Phlebotomy skills preferred
• Experience with electronic medical records, preferred

About Legacy Community Health

The largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Southeast Texas, Legacy Community Health has delivered affordable, high-quality care for nearly 40 years across 50+ clinics in Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast. Our mission — driving healthy change in our communities — guides everything we do, and it starts with our people.

Approachable & Collaborative — Leads with humility, values diverse perspectives, and builds trust through teamwork.

Driven & Committed — Takes initiative and goes the extra mile to improve patient outcomes and drive continuous improvement.

Thoughtful Communicators — Pairs clinical/technical skill with emotional intelligence, navigating complex situations with empathy and professionalism.