Clinic Associate
Hours Per Week: 20-24
Supervisor: Clinical Program Coordinator
Salary: DOE

Women’s Community Clinic
Since 1999, the Women’s Community Clinic has used a volunteer-based model of care to create a safe, welcoming environment where Bay Area women can access health services. We honor our mission to improve the health and well-being of women and girls by providing free: sexual and reproductive health services, outreach services, and health career training programs.

Job Description:
As the Women’s Community Clinic prepares to expand services and move into a new location, this is an exciting time to join the Clinic. The Clinic Associate will play a vital role in clinical administrative activities and projects, including areas of quality improvement and clinical program management. The Clinic Associate will provide clinical administrative support to the Clinical Program Coordinator and Clinical Services Program. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands on experience working in a non-profit, community clinic setting. Qualified applicants should be comfortable working in a diverse, pro-choice environment.

Job Responsibilities include:

Clinical Assistance

• In  conjunction with the Clinical Program Coordinator, manage patient referrals and patient follow-up
• Provide administrative support to Staff Clinicians, such as calling in prescription refills and scheduling appointments
• Coordinate colposcopy referrals with collaboration with Clinic Managers and Clinical Program Coordinator
• Manage medical records requests and lab tracking quality assurance
• Update clinic materials in collaboration with Clinical Program Coordinator and Staff Clinicians

Administrative Support

• Assist with planning and coordinating Quality Improvement (QI) Program and related projects, such as health information technology implementation
• Assists in tracking, monitoring, and compiling data related to QI and Program Evaluation
• Provide administrative and advanced support to Clinical Program Coordinator and Quality Improvement Committee

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two years experience in health care setting or equivalent education. Experience with in women’s health and/or community clinic settings highly preferred.
• Experience with project management and/or quality improvement
• Experience collecting, monitoring and/or analyzing data
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities effectively
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills
• Strong computer skills (Word, PowerPoint and Excel); Project management software, Practice Management System, Disease Registry or Electronic Health Record experience strongly preferred

EEO/AA
The Women’s Community Clinic, a project of Tides Center, is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, including bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, medical condition (cancer-related) or conditions Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions (ARC). Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.

To Apply:
Please send a cover letter, resume, and salary requirements to jobs@womenscommunityclinic.org by no later than November 19th, 2009. In subject line, please write: Clinic Associate. No calls please!