PATIENT CARE TECHNICIAN-RIVERVIEW-REHAB-FULL TIME-NIGHTS-BENEFITS

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

Job summary

A healthcare organization is looking for a Patient Care Technician for night shifts. Responsibilities include providing patient care, communicating with health care teams, and performing clinical tasks such as blood draws. Candidates should have a high school diploma and relevant certification. This full-time position offers competitive pay and benefits.

Qualifications

• Must have good communication skills when interacting with patients and families.
• Completion of a nursing assistant or patient care technician program is required.
• Basic Health Care Life Support certification must be obtained within 60 days.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care based on physical and psychosocial criteria.
• Ongoing communication with patients and nursing staff.
• Perform various clinical duties including venipuncture and specimen collection.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Basic Life Support

Education

High School diploma or GED

Certified Nursing Assistant or equivalent

Job description

Patient Care Technician-Riverview-Rehab-Full Time-Nights-Benefits

RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Borough of Red Bank, New Jersey

• Requisition # 2025-170914
• Shift: Night
• Status: Full Time with Benefits

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 meets the other requirements will be considered for selection into the HMH PCT Apprentice Program.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification (must be obtained during the first 60 days of employment)

Compensation

Minimum rate of $20.32 Hourly

HMH is committed to pay equity and transparency for our team members. The posted rate of pay in this job posting is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package.

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH (HMH) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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.