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Employees of Pacific Neuropsychiatric Specialists (“PNS”), are important members of a team effort. We hope that employees will find their position with PNS rewarding, challenging, and productive. Our employees have been the fuel of our successful growth and are the foundation of our future. We support healthy work/life balance for our employees and invest in their potential through opportunities for continual learning and growth.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a motivated and like-minded Medical Scribe with clear goals of advancing our culture in the fast-paced and exciting field of mental health! The Medical Scribe is responsible for documenting patient history while accompanying the physician during the duration of the patient consultation. This employee must be able to work independently under limited supervision and perform advanced administrative/clerical functions. The Medical Scribe is to provide and maintain excellent patient care service at all times.
Key Responsibilities:
- Document the patient history, including a review of systems, past medical history, family and social histories, medications, and allergies.
- Ensure that all documentation is adequately transposed into the patient’s chart and ready for the Physician’s review at all times.
- Obtain medical records and prepare the patient’s chart for all new patient consultations, add-ons, and scheduled follow-ups.
- Accompany the physician during the whole duration of the patient consultation.
- Scanning of all documentation into the patient’s chart, as needed.
- Work synergistically with the Medical Assistant’s to ensure optimal patient care.
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma required.
- 1-2 years current medical scribe experience (preferred)
- Preferred knowledge of Electronic Medical Records (ECW knowledge preferred).
- Requires clear and effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Requires exceptional telephone etiquette and professional interaction with patients, physicians, and staff members.
- Requires the ability to be detail oriented.
- Proficient typing skills.
- Exhibit excellent listening skills.
Schedule - Monday through Thursday, in office
Pacific Neuropsychiatric Specialists specializes in high quality mental health care for patients of all ages, offering advanced diagnosis and treatment for a wide range of psychiatric conditions, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, and other complex mental health conditions.
PNS was founded on a simple conviction: every person deserves access to compassionate, expert psychiatric care. Our roots trace back over 30 years to groundbreaking psychiatric research, and since 2006, that same commitment has grown PNS into one of Southern California's largest outpatient psychiatric groups.
In 2024, ATP Clinical Research became part of PNS, and Dr. Gustavo Alva joined as Medical Director, Clinical Research, making PNS one of the largest community based psychiatric research programs in the country.
Today, we're Southern California's trusted name in high quality mental health care, and we're growing: 60+ full-time providers, 200+ clinical trials, and 8 locations across the region.
Whether you're providing direct patient care, supporting groundbreaking research, or helping run one of our clinics, you'll be part of a team that treats children, teenagers, and adults facing anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, postpartum depression, dementia, and more.
Come grow with us. We're looking for people who want their work to matter.