Patient Care Assistant

CommonSpirit Health; London (KY); On-site; USD 31,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health's Saint Joseph London hospital is seeking a Patient Care Assistant to help patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with daily living activities, hygiene, mobility, and feeding, under RN supervision.

You will monitor vital signs, prepare rooms, document intake and output, assist with admissions and discharges, and support nursing staff to ensure compassionate, high-quality care across shifts.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, GED or SRNA.
• 1–3 years direct patient care experience.
• Basic Life Support (CPR) certification within 14 days.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care as delegated by RN staff.
• Monitors and records vital signs.
• Assists in providing personal hygiene and physical care needs.
• Accurately measures, records, and reports intake and output.
• Obtains and records daily weight.
• Performs blood glucose testing using blood glucose meter.
• Reports changes in patient’s status promptly to RN.
• Performs as patient care companion when needed.
• Assists in the admission, transfer and discharge process.
• Performs unit housekeeping needs.
• Acts as a runner/transporter.

Skills

Direct patient care

Vital signs monitoring

CPR

Mobility assistance

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As our Patient Care Assistant, you’ll help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities.

Every day, you will directly support patients with tasks such as personal hygiene, mobility, and feeding, while also assisting nursing staff with vital sign monitoring and preparing patient rooms.

Your success in this role comes from your genuine desire to help patients feel better, whether that means giving them fresh bed linens or checking their vitals. You're diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well.

• Provides direct patient care as delegated by RN staff


• Monitors and records vital signs


• Assists in providing personal hygiene and physical care needs


• Accurately measures, records, and reports intake and output


• Obtains and records daily weight


• Performs blood glucose testing using blood glucose meter


• Reports changes in patient’s status promptly to RN


• Performs as patient care companion when needed


• Assists in the admission, transfer and discharge process


• Performs unit housekeeping needs


• Acts as a runner/transporter

Job Requirements

• High School Diploma, GED or SRNA


• 1-3 years One (1) year direct patient care experience


• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days

Where You’ll Work

Welcome to Saint Joseph London, a 150-bed regional hospital founded in 1926. Located on a 52 acre healing environment, Saint Joseph London offers private patient rooms that overlook a small lake and healing garden and has been recognized as a Best Place to Work in Kentucky for five years in a row (2020-2024).

CHI Health Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

Pay Range

$22.51 - $31.79 /hour