PATIENT CARE TECHNICIAN-RIVERVIEW-COMPLEX CARE-PER DIEM-DAYS

JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute; England; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Patient Care Technician to join their team. In this role, you will play a vital part in delivering compassionate care to patients, ensuring their comfort and safety. You will be responsible for a variety of patient care tasks, including monitoring vital signs and assisting with daily activities. This position offers a unique opportunity to grow within a supportive environment that values teamwork and professional development. If you're passionate about making a difference in patients' lives and thrive in a collaborative setting, we encourage you to apply today!

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required; completion of nursing assistant program preferred.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support Certification needed within 60 days.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care based on individual needs and safety criteria.
• Communicate effectively with patients and healthcare team regarding care.
• Assist with hygiene and comfort care, including feeding and dressing.

Skills

Patient Care

Communication Skills

Critical Thinking

Basic Life Support

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Certified Nursing Assistant or equivalent

Job description

PATIENT CARE TECHNICIAN-RIVERVIEW-COMPLEX CARE-PER DIEM-DAYS

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RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Borough of Red Bank, New Jersey

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• Requisition # 2025-160913
• Shift: Day
• Status: Per Diem

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health, we help our patients live better, healthier lives - and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the guests/patients served in assigned service.
• Provide for effective and safe guest/patients outcomes through practice, judgment and critical actions.
• Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status and rendered care.
• Participate in Unit/Department Performance Improvement [PI] activities. Specific Job Functions may include but not limited to:
• Welcomes patients and checks for proper identification bracelets.
• Prepares the patient for assessment/admission, physical examination and procedures.
• Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to age of patients on the unit.
• Obtains clinical data, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O2 saturation and documents findings in patient record and notifies RN immediately of abnormal results.
• Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric aged patients using proper aseptic collection techniques, assure appropriate labeling and processing of specimens to expedite throughput of patients.
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests.
• Demonstrates a reliable and dependable ability to follow through with designated responsibilities in the collecting, labeling, and transporting of specimens to the proper area at the appropriate time: always correctly labels type of specimen collected, including patients name and room number.
• Performs EKG for patients as directed.
• Applies bandages, slings, compression boots and hypothermia blankets according to standard as directed by RN.
• Assists in the transport of patient to departments or units upon request.
• Assists with preparation as necessary assuring the patient is assisted with meals/ or fed as needed.
• Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed.
• Provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, and bed making.
• Assists the patients with dressing/undressing and placing patient belongings in the appropriate bag labeled with completed property checklist. Monitors the return of clothing to family of patient.
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed.
• Provides post mortem care.
• Obtains and documents patient weights and observes and documents patient's intake and output.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Qualifications

• High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
• Completion of one of the following:
• Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant or Patient Care Technician program or
• Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited school of nursing or
• HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program or
• Equivalent medical background experience, such as EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant.
• Note: Candidates that have not completed one of the programs but meet the other requirements will be considered for selection into the HMH PCT Apprentice Program.

If selected, the candidate will be hired into the role of PCT Apprentice. Upon successful completion of the HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program, the candidate will be transferred to the Patient Care Technician role.

• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification (must be obtained during the first 60 days of employment).

If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available to an employer the results of a genetic test, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.

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