Unit Aide

Banner Health•Mesa, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Join our team as a Unit Aide and play a key role in supporting surgical care! In this position, you’ll help maintain a clean, safe, and ready environment in the Operating Room by turning over rooms between procedures, restocking linens and essential supplies. You’ll also assist with transporting patients and supplies as needed, making you an important part of the surgical team’s success. This position is responsible for collection, inventory, cleaning and distribution of medical supplies and patient care equipment for the unit. This position is also responsible for miscellaneous tasks such as transporting patients and supplies, and may include transporting health records, lab specimens and equipment to other areas. This position may provide basic, hands-on, patient care as requested by supervisor. Incumbents work in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment with a strong focus on customer service. Interacts with staff at all levels throughout the facility. Customers are patients, families, physicians, unit staff, case managers, patient service staff and medical records staff. Interacts with a wide variety of external customers. Banner Health is one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country and the leading nonprofit provider of hospital services in all the communities we serve. Throughout our network of hospitals, primary care health centers, research centers, labs, physician practices and more, our skilled and compassionate professionals use the latest technology to make health care easier, so life can be better. The many locations, career opportunities, and benefits offered at Banner Health help to make the Banner Journey unique and fulfilling for every employee.

Requirements

Certification for BLS is required.
Requires skills and abilities typically attained with six months of healthcare experience.
Must possess excellent organizational skills, as well as effective human relations and communication skills.
Working knowledge of medical terminology is required.
Banner Registry and Travel positions require a minimum of one year experience in an acute care hospital setting.
Experience must include working in an acute care setting within the past twelve months as a Unit Aide in the specialty area.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma/GED or equivalent working knowledge.
Knowledge of patient related supplies, materials, equipment and aseptic techniques are preferred.
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Inventories, orders, replenishes, and disperses supplies within the department, ensuring all areas and carts are appropriately stocked and the supplies are readily accessible to the clinical staff.
Assists with transportation, delivery, and pick-up of supplies, health records, lab specimens, and/or equipment.
Rotates and inventories stock to ensure sterile packaging integrity and current expiration dates.
Monitors utilization and recommends changes as appropriate.
Maintains quality records of various department equipment, supplies, storage areas, etc.
Maintains unit equipment, instruments and trays in accordance with department policy.
Cleans, sorts, assembles equipment, instruments and/or trays according to standard set-up and replaces in designated areas, ensuring they are readily accessible.
Responsible for finding and bringing equipment or instruments for procedures, under the direction of the clinical staff.
May check instruments and equipment, as assigned, to see if they need repair and liaison with technology management.
Maintains clean and safe work environment and discards soiled linen and trash.
Completes room set-up which may include comprehensive cleaning, bed turnover and preparation of special procedure carts.
Remove debris from floors, walls, equipment and other surfaces using disinfectant, damp mops etc.
Provides basic, hands-on, patient care as requested by supervisor, including but not limited to patient transport and ambulation.
May provide general support to the department, including performing administrative tasks and greeting and assisting patients, visitors, physicians, and ancillary personnel.
May provide back-up support for Monitor Techs in designated departments – this will require additional specialized training provided by the department.
This position works under local supervision and has responsibility for assigned unit only.