Patient Care Technician | Behavioral Health Adolescent Unit

Sioux Center Health; Sioux Center (IA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO day 1 for eligible hires

Up to 5% employer matching retirement

Career development and mentorship

Job summary

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls is seeking a dedicated Certified Nurse Aide to join its multidisciplinary team. The role focuses on routine patient care, assistance with daily living activities, and ensuring safety and comfort for patients in a fast-paced behavioral health setting.

You will collaborate with nurses and physicians, document care, respond to call lights, and help maintain a clean, organized environment.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) licensure required/licensed.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients and staff.
• Good visual acuity to perform job duties.
• Ability to work flexible hours including days, nights, weekends and holidays.

Responsibilities

• Provides safe and direct patient care including ambulating, bathing, meal service, and monitoring intake and outputs.
• Greets visitors, answers inquiries, relays messages, and assists with department tasks.
• Ambulates patients, assists with wheelchair transfers, and coordinates with departments for appointments.
• Answers phone, operates paging system, and supports care during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic services and coordinates outpatient appointments.
• Manages interdepartmental mail and keeps patient rooms tidy.

Skills

Effective communication

Teamwork

Patient care

Visual acuity

Multitasking

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) License

Job description

Location: Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls

Worker Type Regular

Work Shift Primarily days with night, weekend and holiday on-call involvement (United States of America)

Pay Range The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.
$18.00 - $23.50

Position Highlights

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Responsible for providing routine patient care and support services in accordance with established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the nurse or physician, to assure that the highest degree of quality patient care is maintained at all times.

What You Will Do

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs. Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
• Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinate appointments with respective departments. Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms.
• Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, Or Work Experience

• High School or GED Equivalent High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board

Minimum Age Requirements

16

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement
• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to [e-mail].