LPN Specialist Float OR Medical Assistant Specialist Float - Full Time

Watson Clinic

Lakeland, Florida

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE NEEDS TO BE AN LPN OR A MEDICAL ASSISTANT Watson Clinic runs at clinic pace, on scheduled patients.

Posted Sep 22

Pay: Not posted
Shift and hours: Monday through Friday · 7:45 am - 4:30 pm Full time- Monday- Friday 7:45 am- 4:30 pm5 shifts a week
Unit and setting: Clinic
License: LPN license Must possess active Florida license as a Licensed Practical Nurse.Florida Licensed Practical Nurse license
Term: Permanent Full time- Monday- Friday 7:45 am- 4:30 pmFull time

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New grads: Welcomed
License: Florida Licensed Practical Nurse license Must possess active Florida license as a Licensed Practical Nurse. Check your license
Certification: Medical Assistant Certification within 90 days of employmentAfter hire · must be obtained within 90 days of employment Medical Assistant Certification must be obtained within 90 days of employment.
Certification: BLS certification within three months of employmentAfter hire · completed within three months of employment Current BLS certification or to be completed within three months of employment.
Education: Graduate of an accredited school of Practical Nursing Required Education and Experience: Must be a graduate of an accredited school of Practical Nursing.
Education: High school diploma or GED Required Education and Experience: High school diploma or GED.
Education: Completion of an accredited Medical Assistant program or 1 year of Medical Assistant work experience within the last 2 years Completion of an accredited Medical Assistant program or 1 year of Medical Assistant work experience within the last 2 years.
Experience: 1 year of experience in primary care setting Additional Qualification: 1 Year experience in primary care setting.

Preferred

Experience: Experience or training in a medical health care facility as a Licensed Practical Nurse Preferred Education and Experience: Experience or training in a medical health care facility as a Licensed Practical Nurse.

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The role and schedule

Floating: Floats to other units
Day to day: Telephone triage · Identifies and evaluates patient needs by way of telephone triage.
Day to day: Administer medications and injections and document them · Administers medication including injections; documents medication given or prescribed by ordering physician as required.
Day to day: Identify education needs and provide instruction to patients and families · Identifies patient and family education needs and provides instruction.
Day to day: Recognize and respond to emergency situations · Recognizes and responds to emergency situations as appropriate.
Day to day: Document information in medical records according to Clinical Services policies and procedures · Adheres to the Clinical Services policies and procedures when documenting information patient’s medical records
Day to day: Facilitate patient flow · Facilitates the flow of patients to maintain the integrity of the physician’s office.
Day to day: Assist physician with medical office procedures · Assists the physician with medical office procedures.
Day to day: Maintain office integrity · Maintain the integrity of the office.
Weekends: No weekends

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Watson Clinic

Clinic

You would be walking into Watson Clinic in Lakeland, a private multispecialty group founded in 1941 that now runs roughly a dozen offices and serves Polk County and Central Florida. The day-to-day for LPN and MA float roles sits in…

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No night shifts reported in lab; reviewers cite lack of flexible schedules

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The ideal candidate needs to be an LPN OR a medical assistant

Essential Functions

Identifies and evaluates patient needs by way of telephone triage.

Administers medication including injections; documents medication given or prescribed by ordering physician as required.

Identifies patient and family education needs and provides instruction.

Recognizes and responds to emergency situations as appropriate.

Adheres to the Clinical Services policies and procedures when documenting information patient’s medical records

Facilitates the flow of patients to maintain the integrity of the physician’s office.

Assists the physician with medical office procedures.

Maintain the integrity of the office.

Full time- Monday- Friday 7:45 am- 4:30 pm

Requirements

LPN Specialist requirements are

Required Education and Experience

Must be a graduate of an accredited school of Practical Nursing. Must possess active Florida license as a Licensed Practical Nurse.

Preferred Education and Experience

Experience or training in a medical health care facility as a Licensed Practical Nurse.

Medical Assistant Specialist Requirements are

Required Education and Experience

High school diploma or GED. Completion of an accredited Medical Assistant program or 1 year of Medical Assistant work experience within the last 2 years. Medical Assistant Certification must be obtained within 90 days of employment. Current BLS certification or to be completed within first 90 days of employment

Additional Qualification: 1 Year experience in primary care setting. Current BLS certification or to be completed within three months of employment.

What's around it?

In Lakeland, FL

Lakeland, FLFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 3% below the US average

Median rent: $1,395/mo
Household income: $64,185/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Lakeland, FL

NeighborhoodsNurses and young professionals who want in-city life tend to look at central-south Lakeland, especially Beacon Hill and the streets south of Edgewood and Cleveland Heights. Downtown is the walkable historic core around Lake Mirror and Munn Park, dominated by apartments and converted lofts rather than houses. East Lake Morton keeps you walking distance to downtown with early-1900s bungalows and lake views; Lake Hollingsworth is the lakeside premium with a college campus and larger houses on big lots; Crystal Lake is suburban single-family with easy errands; Combee Settlement is the lower-price modest-house tier. For land and still-workable drives into Lakeland, locals point to Mulberry, Bartow, and Auburndale.

Nurses and young professionals who want in-city life tend to look at central-south Lakeland, especially Beacon Hill and the streets south of Edgewood and Cleveland Heights. Downtown is the walkable historic core around Lake Mirror and Munn Park, dominated by apartments and converted lofts rather than houses.

East Lake Morton keeps you walking distance to downtown with early-1900s bungalows and lake views; Lake Hollingsworth is the lakeside premium with a college campus and larger houses on big lots; Crystal Lake is suburban single-family with easy errands; Combee Settlement is the lower-price modest-house tier. For land and still-workable drives into Lakeland, locals point to Mulberry, Bartow, and Auburndale.

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As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: reddit.com Source 2: trulia.com Source 3: facebook.com

Getting aroundPlan on driving: only downtown and the older lake districts are walkable, and Polk County’s Citrus Connection bus covers the rest thinly. U.S. News puts the average commute at about 19.9 minutes. Interstate 4 runs through the city, with Tampa about 31.6 miles (roughly 40 minutes) and Orlando about 48.9 miles (roughly 55 minutes); reaching those job centers is about an hour, easier off-peak. Downtown parking is mostly metered street spaces plus a few public garages, and the Polk Parkway is the other named route families use for work and weekend trips. These sources do not name specific hospital campuses or their parking.

Plan on driving: only downtown and the older lake districts are walkable, and Polk County’s Citrus Connection bus covers the rest thinly. U.S. News puts the average commute at about 19.9 minutes.

Interstate 4 runs through the city, with Tampa about 31.6 miles (roughly 40 minutes) and Orlando about 48.9 miles (roughly 55 minutes); reaching those job centers is about an hour, easier off-peak. Downtown parking is mostly metered street spaces plus a few public garages, and the Polk Parkway is the other named route families use for work and weekend trips.

These sources do not name specific hospital campuses or their parking.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: realestate.usnews.com Source 2: trulia.com Source 3: ezhomesearch.com Source 4: thesmallteam.com

OutdoorsThe city is shaped by water: 38 named lakes inside the limits, with downtown wrapping Lake Mirror’s 1920s colonnade promenade and Hollis Garden on the shore. Circle B Bar Reserve, run by Polk County Parks, is the big nature fix for hiking, wildlife viewing, and programs. Lakeland Highlands Scrub offers maintained trails and birdwatching in scrub habitat, and Bonnet Springs Park is a large urban mix of nature and recreation. Safari Wilderness and U-pick blueberries at Shady Oak Farm sit in the wider Lakeland orbit.

The city is shaped by water: 38 named lakes inside the limits, with downtown wrapping Lake Mirror’s 1920s colonnade promenade and Hollis Garden on the shore. Circle B Bar Reserve, run by Polk County Parks, is the big nature fix for hiking, wildlife viewing, and programs.

Lakeland Highlands Scrub offers maintained trails and birdwatching in scrub habitat, and Bonnet Springs Park is a large urban mix of nature and recreation. Safari Wilderness and U-pick blueberries at Shady Oak Farm sit in the wider Lakeland orbit.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: youtube.com Source 2: trulia.com Source 3: teamhubbert.com Source 4: visitflorida.com

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Living in Lakeland

Lakeland is Polk County’s lake city on Interstate 4, about 40 minutes from Tampa and 55 from Orlando, with some 122,000 residents and 38 named lakes. The distinct offer for a relocating nurse is a cheaper, slower home base that still reaches two large job markets in under an hour. Housing runs from downtown lofts and East Lake Morton bungalows to lakeside lots at Lake Hollingsworth, suburban Crystal Lake, lower-priced Combee Settlement, and land in Mulberry, Bartow, or Auburndale; recent medians sit in the high $200s to low $300s. You will need a car. Only the Lake Mirror, Munn Park, and Hollis Garden core is walkable; Citrus Connection buses are thin, downtown parking is metered, and the average commute is about 20 minutes. Off-shift life is lakes, Circle B Bar Reserve, Bonnet Springs Park, Poor Porker beignets, The Joinery, Wright buildings at Florida Southern, and Sun n Fun. Honest tradeoffs: traffic and HOA fees are frequent complaints, walkability dies outside the old lake grid, and resident threads split between family-friendly praise and warnings about crime and noise. It is a practical, car-first mid-size city, not a coastal scene or a dense 24-hour hospital neighborhood.

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The ideal candidate needs to be an LPN OR a medical assistant

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LPN Specialist requirements are

Required Education and Experience

Preferred Education and Experience

Medical Assistant Specialist Requirements are

Required Education and Experience

What's around it?

Lakeland, FLiFrom Census ACS 2024.

Life in Lakeland, FL

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Lakeland, FLFrom Census ACS 2024.