.**POSITION**:**Health Center Assistant****RESPONSIBLE TO**:**Center Manager****SUMMARY**: Provides an efficient, professional and caring environment for the health center. This position is hourly, non-exempt.**SCHEDULE**: ~37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday.**QUALIFICATIONS**: High school degree or equivalent. Applicant must have excellent customer service, communication, typing and organizational skills. **Bilingual Preferred****ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS**:- Must be proficient as a health center assistant which includes:- Performs all birth control and STD education and testing as well as pregnancy testing and all other waived tests.- Performs venipuncture and injections (pursuant to state law)- Provides Pap smear education and follow-up as delegated by the health center clinician.- Provides education, obtains informed consent, and assists with minor medical procedures and/or abortions.- Demonstrates excellent customer service skills- Demonstrates advanced computer skills, including report generation in the Enterprise Practice Management system; basic knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.) and an understanding of Intranet usage.- Tracks the receipt, review, and follow-up of lab results and is capable of monitoring the Lab Pending and Resulted Lab report.- Executes every side task required of a health center assistant including but not limited to Birth Control by Mail, records release, incoming and outgoing charts, prescription requests, etc.- Develops, supervises, or coordinates special programs or services such as teen clinics, support groups with education outside core services, and managing volunteers.- Assists with community networking, community education, fundraising, marketing, outreach, and in-service presentations.- Steps in as a point person in the absence of a manager.- Provides follow-up/data entry for special funding programs or research studies as applicable.- Participates in abortion services (participation can include referrals, information, education, counseling, scheduling, etc.)- Able to assist with all procedures provided at your health center.- Performs any other duties as assigned to ensure client satisfaction and promote health center success.- Floats to other health centers and pick up shifts as needed.- Participates in training new staff.- Other duties as assigned.**COVID-19 Vaccine **PPRM is joining our partners in public health across our region and county, as well as many other Planned Parenthood affiliates, by requiring that all employees are fully vaccinated. An employee is considered fully vaccinated two weeks after receiving the second dose of a two-dose vaccine (Pfizer or Moderna) or one dose of a single- dose vaccination (Johnson and Johnson/Janssen) and all**COVID-19****Booster**: PPRM staff members are required to have the COVID-19 vaccine booster shot by the first day of employment. or five months after receiving the final dose of the original vaccine series, whichever is later