Patient Care Technician | PTO Day 1 & Career Growth

Sioux Center Health; Flandreau (SD); On-site; USD 26,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Avera Flandreau Hospital is seeking a Certified Nurse Aide to provide routine patient care and support services under nurse or physician direction. The role includes assisting with activities of daily living, feeding, and ensuring patient comfort and safety.

The position requires working 48 hours per 2 weeks with 12-hour day shifts and every 3rd weekend/holiday. We offer a team-based environment and opportunities for on-the-job training, with pay in the $18.00–$23.50/hour range.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the hours specified and perform all essential job functions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

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.
• Greets all persons, answers inquiries, may direct and assist them, takes and relays messages, assists with gifts, flowers and mail for patients, runs errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients, assists in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes/outputs, collects specimens and transports patients as needed.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, attends station and directs traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services and coordinates appointments with respective departments.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and related forms.
• Requests services such as Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to admissions, discharges, transfers and chart preparation.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning.

Education

High School or GED Equivalent

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

Job description

Avera Flandreau Hospital is seeking a Certified Nurse Aide to provide routine patient care and support services under nurse or physician direction. The role includes assisting with activities of daily living, feeding, and ensuring patient comfort and safety.

The position requires working 48 hours per 2 weeks with 12-hour day shifts and every 3rd weekend/holiday. We offer a team-based environment and opportunities for on-the-job training, with pay in the $18.00–$23.50/hour range.