Care Companion - Float Pool - Full Time 24 Hours/Week - Days

Best Care; Council Bluffs (IA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 26,000; Part time

Job summary

Nebraska Methodist Health System in Council Bluffs, IA is seeking staff to provide 1:1 supervision for patients in a safe care setting. The role involves assisting with daily activities, meals, and ensuring patient safety under supervision across shifts.

The position emphasizes compassion, strong communication, and the ability to report patient needs promptly to the nursing team while maintaining a clean, safe environment for all patients and staff.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Previous cleaning, food service and/or patient related experience preferred.
• Current American Heart Association BLS strongly preferred, required within 3 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 supervision for patients at risk for injury or jeopardizing treatment.
• Identify patient needs and communicate with staff to ensure timely, appropriate care.
• Maintain a clean, safe patient environment and assist with daily activities as needed.
• Support with transfers, positioning and toileting as appropriate, while ensuring patient safety.
• Assist with basic nutrition and hydration delivery and monitoring of patient comfort.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Patient care

Communication

Critical thinking

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?

At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.

Job Summary:

Location: Methodist Jennie Edmundson
Address: 933 E. Pierce St. - Council Bluffs, IA

Work Schedule:
7am to 7pm, 24 hours per week

Provides a safe environment for patient(s) by providing 1:1 supervision for patients whose behavior has been identified at risk for injury and/or may jeopardize the continuation of medically necessary treatment.

Responsibilities:

Essential Functions

Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria.

• Demonstrates ability to identify opportunities for and give individualized customer service/care according to customer/patient needs.

Exhibits excellent interpersonal relations with patients, co-workers, and guests to ensure effective communications.

• Responds to patient needs promptly and courteously.
• Communicates patient issues to the appropriate staff.
• Maintains a positive attitude while responding to requests in a timely and accurate manner.
• Behavior logs completed after each shift and turned into Core.

Provides a safe environment for patient(s) whose behavior has been identified at risk for injury and/or may jeopardize the continuation of medically necessary treatment.

• Assists in keeping excess stimulation to a minimum.
• Provides assistance with repositioning, turning and chair transfers.
• Provides transportation assistance.
• Assists with every two hour toileting schedule, if appropriate.
• Respond to bed exit, sit/stand alarms by assisting the patient(s) in their immediate needs.

The primary nurse will report the activity and nutritional level of the assigned patient(s).

• Helps feed patients as necessary.
• Assists in offering nutrition/fluids on a frequent basis, if appropriate.

Helps maintain patient environment.

• Help keep room neat and tidy, free of clutter.
• Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspapers, mail, tissues.

Helps maintain patient safety.

• Calls for assistance if unsure of observation or activities of the patient(s).
• Assists with diversional activities, if appropriate.
• Is sitting for two patients, companion will sit in hallway between the two rooms and maintain visual contact with both patients.
• Is sitting for a suicide precaution patient, companion must have constant visual contact of the patient at all times. (refer to suicide precaution policy).

Schedule:

7am to 7pm, 24 hours per week

Job Description:

Job Requirements

Education

• High School Diploma or General Educational Development (G.E.D) preferred.
• Participate in mandatory inservices and continuing education programs as mandated by policies and procedures/external agencies and as directed by supervisor.

Experience

• Previous cleaning, food service and/or patient related experience preferred.
• Orientation and on the job experience will be provided to learn hospital procedures and work routines.

License/Certifications

• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) strongly preferred at time of hire, required within 3 months of hire.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Require the ability to understand and carry out instructions, follow schedules, communicate information, read simple and clear instructions.
• Must be able to collect, and report patient needs to the appropriate caregiver.
• Requires ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills commensurate with job description.

Physical Requirements

Weight Demands

• Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.

Physical Activity

• Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
  • Climbing
  • Crawling
  • Kneeling
  • Sitting
• Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
  • Balancing
  • Carrying
  • Crouching
  • Distinguish colors
  • Keyboarding/typing
  • Lifting
  • Pulling/Pushing
  • Repetitive Motions
  • Standing
  • Stooping/bending
  • Twisting
  • Walking
• Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
  • Fingering/Touching
  • Grasping
  • Hearing
  • Reaching
  • Seeing/Visual
  • Speaking/talking

Job Hazards

• Not Related:
  • Explosives (pressurized gas)
  • Electrical Shock/Static
  • Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
  • Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
• Rare (1-33%):
  • Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
  • Mechanical moving parts/vibrations
• Occasionally (34%-66%):
  • Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF)
  • Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)
  • Equipment/Machinery/Tools

About Methodist:

Nebraska Methodist Health System is made up of four hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, more than 30 clinic locations, a nursing and allied health college, and a medical supply distributorship and central laundry facility. From the day Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1891, service to our communities has been a top priority. Financial assistance, health education, outreach to our diverse communities and populations, and other community benefit activities have always been central to our mission.

Nebraska Methodist Health System is an Affirmpative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other classification protected by Federal, state or local law.