Patient Care Technician (PCT) | Short Stay Unit

Avera McKennan; United States; On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO from day 1

Retirement match (up to 5%)

Career development

Job summary

Avera McKennan Hospital in the United States is seeking a patient care assistant to deliver routine care and support services within established policies. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality patient care and safety throughout shifts, including days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.

The role emphasizes direct patient support, timely response to call lights, and coordination with nurses and departments.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the specified hours.
• Must be able to perform essential job functions including effective communication, hearing and understanding speech.

Responsibilities

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, feeding and other care tasks.
• Responds promptly to patient call lights and needs.
• Greets patients and visitors, answers inquiries and assists with messages and deliveries.
• Assists patients in and out of wheelchairs, measures intake/output, may collect specimens and transport.
• Performs clerical duties related to admissions, discharges and chart preparation.

Skills

Communication

Visual acuity

Teamwork

Education

High School or GED Equivalent

High school diploma or GED

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

Job description

Location

Avera McKennan Hospital, United States of America.

Work Details

• Worker Type: Regular.
• Shift: Day/Evening/Weekend/Holiday Shift.
• Hours: 36 hours per week (Every third weekend/holiday).
• Pay Range: $18.00 - $23.50 per hour. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.
• May be eligible for a $750 Sign On Bonus.

About the Role

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.

Position 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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, answers 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 assists 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 directs traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinates appointments with respective departments.
• Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repair 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

Commitment and Standards

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

• 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.

Accommodation for Disability

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].

Faith Statement

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.

Closing

Join us in making a positive impact on moving health forward.