Patient Care Assistant II

CommonSpirit Health; Lufkin (TX); On-site; USD 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health's St. Luke's Health - Memorial Lufkin seeks a Patient Care Assistant to support patients with daily living activities, assist nursing staff, monitor vitals, and help prepare rooms.

You will be diligent, observant, coachable, and committed to comfort and safety, with duties including hygiene, mobility, feeding, and timely documentation of patient condition. This on-site role at Memorial Lufkin offers competitive pay and the chance to contribute to East Texas healthcare.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Graduated from an accredited school of nursing or 1 year direct patient care experience.
• CPR - BLS within 14 days.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care as delegated by RN staff.
• Monitors and records vital signs.
• Assists in 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.

Skills

Patient care

Vital signs monitoring

Observation

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Nursing program or 1 year direct patient care experience

Basic Life Support - CPR within 14 days

Tools

Blood glucose testing

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

Job Requirements

• High School Graduate or GED
• Graduated from an accredited school of nursing or 1 year direct patient care experience
• Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days

Where You'll Work

St. Luke's Health - Memorial Lufkin is a 279 bed facility and member of CommonSpirit Health, a national nonprofit health system. Serving East Texas, St. Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin provides more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributes millions of dollars in local charity care and community support. We're the area's first Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center, with board-certified neurologists and neurosurgeons offering full-spectrum stroke care. Nationally recognized as a HealthCare Center of Excellence, St. Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin offers compassionate, comprehensive health care, including off-campus rehab and outpatient facilities and services. In addition to its large emergency department, there are 32 private rooms, dedicated imaging and OBGYN, wound care, infusion and lab services.

Pay Range

$16.06 - $22.69 /hour