Patient Care Tech Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Clearly communicate with other members of the healthcare team.
• Understand and follow directions from the healthcare team.
• Know patient and healthcare safety standards and regulations, including falls, skin breakdown, suicide prevention, and environment-of-care practices.
• Know and demonstrate infection prevention and transmission-based precautions.
• Understand clerical duties and office-based technology.
• Work effectively as part of a team.
• Collect and document patient data, including vital signs, intake and output, and changes in patient condition.
• Provide basic hygiene and activities-of-daily-living care.
• Assist with feeding, hydration, and nutrition.
• Assist with bowel and bladder elimination.
• Assist with ambulation and patient mobility.
• Use clinical technology.
• Take a compassionate, relationship-based approach to care activities.
• Be accountable for completing assigned tasks.
• Escalate concerns through the chain of command.

Nice To Haves

• Recent experience in acute care, a physician’s office, home health or hospice, or a long-term care facility; experience in the setting for which the applicant is applying is preferred.
• EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) training.

Responsibilities

• Provide basic patient care, including comfort, vital-sign measurement, personal care, hygiene, mobility assistance, and unit-based specialty duties.
• Serve as a liaison between patients and nurses by reporting changes and concerns.
• Provide high-level customer service to patients, patients’ families, visitors, and employees.
• Complete accurate, precise, and timely documentation when applicable to patient care.
• Participate in handoffs and report pertinent patient and departmental information upon arrival and when leaving.
• Perform delegated tasks after competency has been validated.
• Mobilize patients using therapeutic transfer techniques that promote independence and safety.
• Encourage patients to complete tasks as independently as possible.
• Individualize care based on patients’ interests and hobbies.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, incentives, referral bonuses, and a 403(b) with employer contributions when eligible.
• Medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage; HSA/FSA options; life insurance; mental health resources; and discounts.
• Paid time off, parental and FMLA leave, short- and long-term disability, and backup care for children and elders.
• Tuition assistance, professional development, and continuing education support. Benefits may vary based on market and employment status.