MULTI-CARE TECH - 8th SOUTHWEST ORTHOPAEDICS

East Alabama Health; Opelika (AL); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

East Alabama Medical Center is seeking a Med/Surg Medical Care Tech (MCT) to provide safe, holistic patient care in a team-based environment. The role includes glucose monitoring, assisting with meals, grooming, mobility, and daily patient care tasks under supervision.

On-the-job training will cover medical terminology, phlebotomy clinicals, and BLS. The position emphasizes collaboration with nurses, MDs, and other care specialties to ensure quality outcomes and patient comfort.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or 10 years of relevant experience.
• No prior experience is required for the role.

Responsibilities

• Obtain blood glucose readings.
• Assist patients with mealtime feedings.
• Bathing and patient grooming.
• Assistance with restrooms and cleaning.
• Assist ambulation and mobility.
• Lifting, turning and repositioning patients.
• Draw blood for labs.
• Collaborate with nurses and physicians.
• Manage wound or surgical drain output and dressings.

Skills

Blood glucose readings

Patient assistance

Wound care prep

Team collaboration

Mobility assistance

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Medical terminology class

Phlebotomy clinical

BLS training

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.