MULTI-CARE TECH - 6T GEN SURGERY & ONCOLOGY

East Alabama Health; Opelika (AL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

East Alabama Medical Center is seeking a healthcare support professional to provide safe, compassionate patient care across routine activities and monitoring tasks. You will work closely with nurses and other care team members to ensure patient comfort and safety, assisting with daily activities and essential treatments.

On-the-job training is provided, including medical terminology, phlebotomy basics, and BLS.

Qualifications

• Requires High School Diploma or 10 years of relevant experience.
• BLS certification must be obtained within 90 days of hire date.

Responsibilities

• Obtain Blood Glucose readings and assist with mealtime feeding.
• Assist with bathing, grooming, ambulation, and patient transfers.
• Support patient restrooms use and housekeeping tasks as needed.
• Collect blood samples for labs and collaborate with nurses and physicians.

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

At East Alabama Medical Center, our mission is high quality, compassionate health care, and that statement guides everything we do. We set high standards for customer service, quality, and keeping costs under control.

POSITION SUMMARY

Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. Incorporates differences into the provision of care. Integrates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum to include patient and family education. Utilizes standards, guidelines, protocols, or pathways for care delivery. Incorporates data and information to continuously improve care and practice to enhance outcomes. Ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development. Will provide care as a team with the nurses such as but not limited to:

• Obtaining Blood Glucose readings
• Helping patient with mealtime feedings
• Bathing
• Patient restroom assistance and cleaning
• Ambulation of the patient
• Grooming
• Lifting, turning, and repositioning of patients in beds and chairs
• Blood draws for patient labs
• Collaborating with nurses, MDs, and other patient care specialties
• Emptying and obtaining wound or surgical drain output
• Wound or surgical incision site dressing changes

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

• High School Diploma or 10 years of relevant experience
• No prior experience is required.
• EAH will provide on the job training: medical terminology class, phlebotomy clinical, BLS class, and 1-on-1 training with an MCT in your department.
• Required Registration/License/Certification
• BLS must be obtained within 90 days of hire date. EAH will provide.
• Preferred Education
• N/A
• Preferred Experience
• 1 year or more of Med/ Surg MCT experience.
• Preferred Registration/License/Certification