Patient Care Technician - PAC

NYC Health + Hospitals; New York (NY); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

NYC Health + Hospitals Gouverneur seeks a Nurse Aide to provide direct patient care under supervision in a 295-bed SNF with a 5-Star CMS quality rating. You will assist with activities of daily living, transport patients, and support rehabilitation and therapy services in a state-of-the-art facility.

The role involves assisting in sub-acute, long-term and hospice care, observing patients, maintaining charts, and communicating effectively with medical staff.

Qualifications

• Graduation from elementary school.
• Successful completion of a basic skill training program for Nurse's Aides, or its equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Assists in recreational and rehabilitation activities designed to meet the assessed needs, interests and capabilities of patients.
• Assists with the physical care and personal hygiene of patients, including changing dressings, taking vital signs, preparing meals and feeding when necessary.
• Prepares patients for examinations and assists in the examination process.
• Maintains and prepares patient care areas and equipment for safe operation and transport of supplies.
• Transports patients and assists in moving to various departments and activities within the facility.
• Provides comfort and daily living assistance, observes and reports patient conditions to licensed staff.

Job description

Marketing Statement

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur is a 295-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Gouverneur offers enhanced, cutting edge healthcare services in a state-of-the-art space. It provides 24-hour care for individuals in need of sub-acute care, long-term care or hospice care which include services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and vocational rehabilitation. Gouverneur is an academic affiliate of NYU School of Medicine and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Marketing Statement

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gouverneur is a 295-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood. Gouverneur offers enhanced, cutting edge healthcare services in a state-of-the-art space. It provides 24-hour care for individuals in need of sub-acute care, long-term care or hospice care which include services like physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and vocational rehabilitation. Gouverneur is an academic affiliate of NYU School of Medicine and Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. From more than 600 Nursing Homes in New York, Gouverneur ranks #2 in the State, and #1 in New York City, in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York 2026; and also received high-performance ratings for Long-term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2026. At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose of Position: Under direct supervision of a Licensed Nurse or other licensed professional staff, performs activities and procedures of a non-professional nature in direct/indirect care of patients and residents, or participates as a member of a treatment, nursing, medical or health care team in implementing appropriate regimens.

Examples Of Typical Tasks

• Assists in recreational and rehabilitation activities designed to meet the assessed needs, interests and capabilities of patients. Supervises patients/residents during field trips.
• Assists with the physical care and personal hygiene of selected patients, consisting of, but not limited to, changing simple dressings, giving enemas and taking vital signs. Prepares patient for meals and feeds them if necessary.
• Prepares patient for examination by performing assigned procedures such as temperature, pulse, respiration, height, weight and measurements, and assists in the examination process.
• Prepares patient and/or examining room for examination, treatment and/or procedures. Sets up and arranges examining room.
• Maintains, assembles and dismantles devices and equipment used in patient care. Prepares and tests equipment for safe operation and transports various equipment and supplies.
• Changes linen and makes beds. Keeps ward and/or unit, linen, utility, treatment, storage rooms and recreational areas in a neat and orderly fashion.
• Assists in care and storage of patients' clothing and property and sterilizes clothing and other personal items when required.
• Reports observations of patients' and families' condition, mental state and social behavior to medical and professional staff caring for patients, and participates in the assessment and/or care of patients and families.
• Maintains, controls, completes, processes and files patients' charts, records, transportation and time records, appropriate forms and documents.
• Assists in clinic, admission procedures and in regulation of visitors.
• Escorts ambulatory patients and transports non-ambulatory patients by wheelchair, stretcher, bed or stretcher-bed, including those with intravenous apparatuses to all departments, clinics, diagnostic and therapeutic units, religious and recreation centers, and other areas within the facility and facility's affiliation hospital. Accompanies children to facility school and explains nature of trips to patients.
• Transports bodies and/or assists mortuary caretaker in transporting bodies to the mortuary and places in refrigerator when necessary. Searches DOA's and completes the required DOA reports. Transports fetuses, amputated parts or other specimens to morgue and provides postmortem care.
• Collects and delivers specimens, charts, x-rays, regular and emergency requisitions for diagnostic tests and treatments. Performs other messenger duties, as required.
• Provides for comfort needs of patients and assists patient with all aspects and activities of daily living.
• Maintains clinical competence by attending continuing education programs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduation from elementary school.
• Successful completion of a basic skill training program for Nurse's Aides, or its equivalent.