Patient Care Technician Float

Baptist Health; Kentucky; On-site; USD 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health in Kentucky is seeking a Patient Care Technician to assist physicians and clinicians in direct patient care, including intake, obtaining vitals, reviewing medical history, expediting patient flow, rooming patients, stocking supplies, and navigating the EPIC electronic health record.

Under supervision, you will perform non-clinical duties as needed, communicate respectfully, and uphold Baptist Health’s mission and values.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Basic computer skills for navigating confidential databases.
• Basic Life Support and other training within 90 days of hire.
• Orientation/externship and additional training as needed.

Responsibilities

• Check in patients.
• Obtain vital signs and reconcile medications.
• Collect patient medical history information.
• Expedite patient flow.
• Room patients.
• Stock clinic with supplies.
• Navigate EPIC electronic health record.
• Perform other non-clinical duties as needed.
• Communicate respectfully and uphold Baptist Health’s mission.

Skills

Vital signs

EHR navigation

Communication

Basic computer skills

Education

High school diploma

Tools

EPIC EHR

Job description

Summary Job Description

The Patient Care Technician will be responsible for the examination and treatment of patients under the direct supervision of the physician or advanced practice clinician. Duties include but not limited to the following:

• check in patients
• obtaining vital signs (height, weight, blood pressure, pulse, pulse oximetry, temperature) and medication reconciliation
• patient medical history information
• expediting patient flow
• rooming patients
• stocking clinic with supplies
• navigating electronic health record system (EPIC)
• and performing other non-clinical duties as needed.

The PCT will communicate in a respectful manner and will uphold Baptist’s mission and core values that drive service excellence.

Minimum Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Basic computer skills, specifically with navigating within databases containing highly confidential information.
• Basic Life Support and other advanced training as appropriate, within 90 days of hire.
• Upon hire these disciplines will be required to attend orientation| externship and additional training as needed.

Job Titles

• PCT
• SRNA
• Nursing Assistant
• CNA
• NCT
• Nursing Care Tech

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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