Patient Care Technician (PCT) | Senior Unit | PRN

Avera McKennan; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls is seeking a PRN Patient Care Technician to provide routine patient care on the Senior Unit. The role involves ambulating, bathing, feeding, and responding to patient needs in a 20-bed behavioral health unit.

The ideal candidate will have a High School diploma or GED and CNA certification, with strong communication and teamwork skills to support a compassionate care environment. Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends may apply.

Qualifications

• Ability to provide routine patient care and support
• Strong communication with patients, families, and team
• Compliance with policies and safety standards

Responsibilities

• Provide safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, feeding and monitoring
• Answer call lights promptly and assist with patient needs
• Prepare requisitions and coordinate appointments with departments
• Maintain patient rooms and assist with supplies and clerical tasks
• Work with a multidisciplinary team to support patient care

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

Job description

Location

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls

Worker Type

PRN

Work Shift

Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays (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

• Must be the age of 18 years or older for PCTs at Behavioral Health

Why is Behavioral Health important?

The Avera Behavioral Health Senior Unit is a 20 bed unit that provides a welcoming, calming and healing environment to our patients as well as their families. The Senior unit’s environment is an active and challenging care environment that requires critical thinking and at the same time values autonomous professional nursing practice. You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are someone that:

• Enjoys working with older adults with all different levels of functioning as well as their families.
• Has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Dementia, Depression, Catatonia, Anxiety Disorders, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.
• Possesses motivation to help create and deliver high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment.
• Work with a dynamic and comprehensive team that includes: Physicians, Social Workers, Case Management, Patient Care Techs, expressive therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, physical, occupation and speech therapy.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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].

At Avera, the way you are treated as an employee translates into the compassionate care you deliver to patients and team members. Because we consider health care a ministry, you can live out your faith, uphold the dignity and respect of all persons while not compromising high-quality services. Join us in making a positive impact on moving health forward.