# Medical Assistant

- **Company:** Discovery Ranch South
- **Location:** Cedar City, UT, US (Not specified)
- **Salary:** Salary not disclosed
- **Contract:** Part-time
- **Posted:** 2026-11-11

## Job description

We believe in the potential of individuals and the ability to restore choice. Through nurturing relationships and challenging experiences, we all can discover hope, passion, and perseverance in the face of life’s adversity.
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Part- time | 20-25 hrs/week | Pay $16-$18/HR doe | potential to move to full time
Must be available for weekend on-call questions
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Located on a large, breath-taking private ranch on the outskirts of beautiful Cedar City, Discovery Ranch South is a licensed, accredited residential treatment center for for adolescent females. As our LPN and/or Medical Assistant, you will work with our clinical team to provide integrated care services to our students. You will work directly with our students to monitor their health, provide health education, and address their concerns. You will also manage communication regarding students' health with therapists, mentors, and our students' parents.
Discovery Ranch South combines the power of traditional and experiential therapies to create a clinically sophisticated, relationship-based residential treatment program. Healthy relationships, novel and challenging experiences, and a strengths-based approach are how we foster the healing process and create lasting change.
Be a part of the healing journey. Join the clinical team at Discovery Ranch South.
Responsibilities
Provide on-call medical support on weekends, with flexibility to coordinate weekend off-days with nursing staff.
Communicate medical needs/concerns to parents/legal guardians
Coordinate approval by parents/legal guardians for medication changes
Inform parents/legal guardian of upcoming appts., medical updates or concerns
Coordinate parent calls to talk with psychiatrist
Communicate medical concerns to referral sources
Manages all student medications
Ensures medications are secured, accounted for and dispensed as ordered by the prescribing physician
Properly disposes old/unused medications
Monitors/assess medication efficacy and side effects
Stocks,restocks, and reorders medical supplies and equipment
Stocks/restocks first aid kits throughout the entire campus
Fanny packs stocked/restocked with Epipens,inhalers,other necessary meds
Check In as needed at student housing
Competencies
Action oriented: Achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility
Leadership: Motivates and collaborates with leadership team
Effective verbal and written communication: Shares information with clarity, listens carefully
Creative and innovative: Develops/improves existing systems with effectiveness
Customer oriented: Listens, builds confidence, ensure needs are met
Interpersonal skills: Effectively establishes trust, credibility and confidence, effectively regulates emotions
Teamwork: Is a part of and utilizes teams to optimize results, acts to build trust, effectively resolves conflicts
Requirements
Medical Assistant Certification or Certified Nursing Assistant certification
Eligible to work in the USA
Able to pass criminal investigation background checks
Able to pass motor vehicle record check
Current Utah driver's license (within 30 days of employment)
First Aid & CPR certified (we may provide)
Experience in a residential or wilderness setting preferred
Benefits
Potential to move to full-time which comes with additional benefits
Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Continued professional development & certification opportunities
Significant discounts for hundreds of professional gear brands
A few hours or less from Zion National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, the Grand Canyon, and Lake Powell
A few hours from many world-class ski resorts

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