Behavioral Health Patient Care Tech - Rotating Shifts

Avera Health; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls seeks a PRN Patient Care Tech to join a 20-bed Senior Unit. You will provide routine patient care under nursing supervision, supporting medical and mental health needs with compassionate teamwork.

In this role, you will assist with activities of daily living, monitor patient comfort, document care, and coordinate with physicians, social workers, and therapists to ensure high-quality care for older adults with diverse conditions. Rotating shifts apply.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED is required.
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) certification is preferred and may be required by Licensing Board.

Responsibilities

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs. Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
• Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinate appointments with respective departments. Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms.
• Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.

Education

High School or GED Equivalent

Job description

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls seeks a PRN Patient Care Tech to join a 20-bed Senior Unit. You will provide routine patient care under nursing supervision, supporting medical and mental health needs with compassionate teamwork.

In this role, you will assist with activities of daily living, monitor patient comfort, document care, and coordinate with physicians, social workers, and therapists to ensure high-quality care for older adults with diverse conditions. Rotating shifts apply.