Compassionate Patient Care Tech — PTO from Day 1 + Growth

Avera; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO available day 1 for eligible hires

Retirement matching up to 5%

Career development and mentorship

Job summary

Avera St Mary's Hospital in Pierre, SD is seeking a full-time caregiver to join a multidisciplinary team. Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays, you will provide routine patient care under nurse or physician direction to maintain high-quality services.

Responsibilities include assisting with ambulation, bathing, meals, intake/outtake, coordinating appointments, managing supplies, and responding to calls.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the hours specified and perform essential job functions.
• Visual acuity adequate to perform duties and communicate effectively.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made for disabilities.
• Preferred: CNA certification and high school diploma or GED.

Responsibilities

• Provides safe direct patient care including ambulating, bathing, positioning, feeding and attending to care needs.
• Greets visitors, answers inquiries, may direct and assist them, takes and relays messages, assists with gifts, flowers and mail for patients, runs errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assists in and out of wheelchairs; measures intakes and outputs.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and directs traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services and coordinates 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 Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to admissions, discharge, charts and forms, transfers, and death.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Compassion

Patient care

Education

High School or GED Equivalent

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

Job description

Avera St Mary's Hospital in Pierre, SD is seeking a full-time caregiver to join a multidisciplinary team. Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays, you will provide routine patient care under nurse or physician direction to maintain high-quality services.

Responsibilities include assisting with ambulation, bathing, meals, intake/outtake, coordinating appointments, managing supplies, and responding to calls.