Medical Assistant/LPN – Neurology

Join the Cleveland Clinic team where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Here, you will receive endless support and appreciation while building a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.   

As a Medical Assistant on this team, you will play a vital role in creating a welcoming and supportive environment for patients, families, and visitors. You’ll work collaboratively with fellow staff to support medication management, patient monitoring, and a variety of administrative and clinical tasks. This position offers a unique opportunity to broaden their clinical experience by engaging in a wide range of responsibilities across patient care, compliance, and coordination with interdisciplinary teams.

This position will also consider an LPN. As an LPN, you will assist fellow caregivers in providing exceptional, top-quality care to a diverse patient population. In this role, you can make a lasting difference in the lives of patients, all while enhancing your nursing skills through hands-on experience and numerous educational resources offered within the Cleveland Clinic system.  

A caregiver in this role will work between 7:00am and 5:00pm in 8-hr shifts. These shifts will be based on facility needs.  

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Assist with performing screenings and treatments by gathering and updating information related to health maintenance, identifying medication changes, updating allergy information, collecting specimens, performing tests and documenting patient care.  

• Monitor and communicate changes in patient condition.  

• Maintain equipment, medical supplies and examination areas.  

• Perform administrative/clerical duties, such as filing, reception, scheduling, data entry and patient registration.  

OR AS AN LPN:

• Provide patient care activities under the direction of an RN and/or physician. 

• Collect and document objective and subjective data and observations about patients.  

• Complete nursing assessments and report all data.  

• Implement the current nursing care plan, medication or treatment and communicate patients’ responses.  

• Observe patients for adverse reactions to medications or treatments.  

• Perform routine laboratory tests.  

• Educate patients and family members.  

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Graduate from an approved Medical Assisting Program.  (As designated by the Enterprise MA Steering Committee)  

• OR Military training as a Hospital Corpsman (HM), Combat Medic (68W) or Medical Service Technician (4N0X1) will be considered 

• Completion of a clinical externship (Extensive clinical experience may be considered in lieu of formal clinical externship) 

• Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (within new hire period) 

• Current demonstrated clinical proficiency 

OR FOR AN LPN

• Graduate of an approved school of Practical Nursing  

• Current Ohio license as a Licensed Practice Nurse (LPN) 

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)  

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include: 

• Medical Assisting Certification 
• Successful completion of Cleveland Clinic Externship 
• One year of patient care experience (for an LPN)

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full body motion to move and lift patients, manual finger dexterity with good hand-eye coordination, involves extensive standing walking and occasional lifting.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
• Requires working under stressful conditions or working irregular hours.
• Requires some exposure to communicable diseases or body fluids.
• Medium Work – Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.