Nursing Assistant - Float Team Nights

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; New York (NY); On-site; USD 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York seeks a Nursing Assistant to support inpatient care, collaborating with RNs and the care team to assist patients through their cancer journey. The role emphasizes hands-on patient care, teamwork, and a commitment to the center's mission.

The position involves taking vitals, helping with exercises and mobility, maintaining a clean patient environment, assisting with hygiene, ensuring supplies, and documenting intake/output while supporting

Qualifications

• Nursing Assistant certification or an equivalent healthcare credential is required or at least 1 year of direct patient care experience.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required by the time of hire.
• Ability to perform physical tasks including lifting, transfers, standing for long periods.

Responsibilities

• Take patient vital signs such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, temperature and oxygen saturation.
• Encourage movement and assist with exercises, ambulation, transfers, turning and positioning.
• Maintain a clean, comfortable environment following MSK policies.
• Assist with personal hygiene tasks including bathing, mouth care, peri-care and skin care.
• Ensure daily supplies are available and change bed linens as needed.
• Record intake and output and assist with patient discharge under RN guidance.

Education

Nursing Assistant certification or related (PCT, EMT, Med Tech, Home Health Aide, LPN)

Job description

About Us:

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursueour missionat MSK and around the globe.

Exciting Opportunity at MSK:

Join Memorial Sloan Kettering as a Nursing Assistant and play a vital role in delivering safe, high-quality inpatient care. As a key member of the care team, you'll work closely with RNs and interdisciplinary partners to support patients through critical moments in their cancer journey. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in hands-on patient care, values teamwork, and wants to grow within a mission-driven healthcare environment.

Role Overview:

• Be responsible for taking patient vital signs, including blood pressure, heart and respiratory rate, temperature, and oxygen saturation

• Encourage patients to perform exercises and guide patient activities as advised including ambulating, transferring, turning, and positioning

• Maintain a clean, comfortable environment for each patient that aligns with MSK policies and procedures

• Perform personal hygiene tasks for patients including bathing, mouth care, peri-care, and skin care

• Ensure patient has necessary supplies every day, including a clean gown, towels, and soap; change bed linens as needed

• Record intake and output

• Escort discharged patients out of the hospital as directed by RN

Key Qualifications:

• Nursing Assistant or other healthcare-related certification (PCT, EMT, Med Tech, Home Health Aide, LPN) required, OR at least 1 year of direct patient care experience (in inpatient, outpatient, emergency, long-term care, or home health settings) in lieu of certification

• BLS Certification required by the time of hire

• Ability to perform physical tasks such as lifting, transferring, prolonged standing, and frequent movement throughout a shift

Core Skills:

• An effective communicator, able to determine how best to reach different audiences

• Excited to work as part of a caregiving, patient-centered team, capable of building positive relationships and delivering patient-centric solutions

• A problem-solver, eager to take initiative in new situations and address tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and passion

• Adept at building partnerships and working collaboratively to meet shared goals and objectives

• A good decision-maker, with demonstrated success at making timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward

Additional Information

• Location:1275 York Avenue, New York, NY
• Schedule: 7PM-7:30AM; Mon-Fri weekend and holiday rotation

Helpful Links:

• MSK Compensation Philosophy
• Review Our Greats Benefits Offerings

Pay Range: $22.87 - $29.38FSLA Status: Non-Exempt

Closing:

At MSK, we believe in fair, competitive pay that reflects your job, experience, and skills.

MSK is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran status or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision.

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