Medical Assistant - Phoenix, AZ - Part-Time, After-Hours Behavioral Health Role
We are looking for a medical assistant who wants a genuinely part-time clinical role — about 10 hours a week, mostly in the evening — supporting young patients and their families in an outpatient behavioral health practice in Phoenix.
Overview & Highlights:
Location: Phoenix, Arizona — on-site at an outpatient behavioral health practice
Schedule: Part-time, approximately 10 hours per week, with evening and after-hours appointments preferred so working parents can bring their children in outside of work and school hours
Compensation: $20–$24 per hour
Benefits: Reviewed during the interview process
Work Setting: Outpatient behavioral health practice serving young patients and their families
Remote / Hybrid / On-Site Status: On-site
Position Type: Direct-hire, W-2 employee, part-time — one opening
Location & Logistics:
Work Environment: Outpatient behavioral health office in Phoenix, Arizona
Department or Team: You work alongside the prescribing and clinical providers and the administrative staff who support them
Patient-Facing Responsibilities: Yes — direct contact with young patients and with the parents and caregivers who bring them in
Systems / EMR / Software: The practice’s electronic health record; the specific platform is reviewed during the interview process
Travel: None required
On-Call: None required
Reporting Structure: Reviewed during the interview process
About the Opportunity / A Day in the Life:
This is a part-time medical assistant role in an outpatient behavioral health practice, built around roughly 10 hours a week. Most of those hours fall in the evening, because the families we care for schedule appointments around work and school. If you want steady, predictable clinical work that fits alongside school, another position, or family commitments, this is a straightforward fit.
Day to day, you are the person who gets patients ready for their visit and keeps the clinical details straight. You greet young patients and their parents, take and record vitals, room them, update the chart, and make sure the provider has what they need before the visit begins. Between visits, you close out the small things that keep care moving — messages to return, forms to complete, pharmacy and provider questions to resolve.
A meaningful part of this job is medication support. You help keep each patient’s medication plan accurate and current, and you are often the person who explains the practical details to a parent on the phone and carries their questions back to the prescribing provider. Accuracy and a calm, unhurried tone matter more here than raw speed.
Why This Role Stands Out:
A genuinely part-time schedule — about 10 hours a week, not a full-time job compressed into fewer days
Evening hours that fit around school, another position, or family commitments
A clearly defined scope — patient preparation, documentation, and medication-plan support — rather than an open-ended list of whatever needs doing
Direct working contact with the prescribing providers, so you see how treatment decisions are actually made
Real continuity with the same patients and families over time, instead of one-off encounters
Work that visibly matters: you are often the person who makes a confusing medication plan make sense at home
What We're Looking For:
A medical assistant who has completed an accredited medical assistant program and is comfortable working independently within a defined scope
Someone reliably available for evening and after-hours appointments
Clear, warm communication with young patients and with parents and caregivers who may be anxious or overwhelmed
Careful documentation habits — medication details and chart notes have to be right the first time
Comfort with behavioral health as a setting: confidentiality, boundaries, and a non-judgmental manner
Professional phone presence with pharmacies and prescribing providers
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
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