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UPMC Hamot is hiring a Part-Time Senior Patient Care Technician to join the team on 7 South Oncology!

If you’re passionate about patient care and looking for a career that offers great benefits and plenty of room for growth, we invite you to explore this opportunity today!

Title and salary will be determined based upon education and experience.

Responsibilities:

• Supports and suggests departmental changes. Takes responsibility for assignments and views problems as challenges.

• Demonstrates awareness of behavior's impact on department efficiency. Supports department projects and quality initiatives.

• Receives feedback constructively and identifies learning needs. Communicates learning needs and takes action to improve skills.

• Requests assistance for planning and prioritizing activities. Participates in self-review, projects, and committees.

• Adheres strictly to patient care and hospital policies and procedures. Complies with safety procedures, including standard precautions.

• Documents in medical records according to procedures. Performs assigned tasks promptly and efficiently.

• Transports cardiac-monitored patients within the hospital. May insert Foley catheters, perform straight catheterization, and IV procedures.

• Completes clerical functions as needed.

• Provides patient care, including assisting with daily living activities and procedures. Assists with physical, respiratory, and cardiopulmonary therapies.

• Provides feedback on patient care and reports status changes. Provides patient and family instruction under RN direction.

• Applies, monitors, and removes patient restraints as needed. Reports equipment malfunctions and communicates effectively with other departments.

• Contributes to unit activities like responding to calls and transporting patients.

• Communicates clearly with all healthcare team members. Understands cultural diversity, horizontal violence, and impairment in health professions.

• Supports safety in the workplace for both patients and staff. Maintains professional, respectful relationships and accountability.

• Routinely performs core nursing assistant responsibilities, including ADLs, point-of-care testing, and specimen collection.

• Performs advanced skills like basic arrhythmia, complex wound care, 12-lead EKGs, and NG tube management as needed.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Must have either: a) 2 years of general healthcare experience and meet Patient Care Technician title requirements b) 1 year of experience and enrollment in a PT/OT/PA program with at least one clinical rotation completed c) 1 year of experience and completion of a bachelor's degree in a health sciences field.

• Annual completion of a professional contribution, to be determined after hire.

• Successful completion of Patient Care Technician Senior class. Successful completion of basic information system training.

• Microcomputer experience preferred. Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

• Nursing student with at least one clinical rotation completed preferred.

• Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) or Paramedic, or currently enrolled in an EMT or Paramedic program, preferred.

• Successful completion of a basic arrhythmia course and annual competency required.

• May be in rooms where medications are stored or transport medications when transporting patients, limited to departmental transfers.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

• Act 34

• ACLS preferred

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

If you would like to discuss this opportunity and more with a Recruiter for Hamot Nursing and Nursing Support, you can schedule an appointment to meet with us during our virtual office hours! We are available Mondays and Wednesdays 8AM-10AM, 12PM-2PM, 5PM-7PM. We are also available every first Saturday of the month by request, please email morrisonlm2@upmc.edu to request Saturdays.

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