UPMC Hamot Women’s Hospital is hiring a Casual Patient Care Technician to join our Pediatrics team!

Apply now to join a unit with great teamwork and a diverse patient population!

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

Purpose: The Patient Care Technician (PCT) supports patient care by assisting nurses and physicians with routine tasks and advanced skills. Their duties include helping with daily activities, conducting point-of-care tests, monitoring vital signs, and ensuring patient safety. They also perform advanced procedures like phlebotomy and EKGs as needed.

Responsibilities:

Suggests and supports departmental changes and quality initiatives. Assumes responsibility for assignments and views problems as challenges. Demonstrates awareness of behavior on department efficiency. Performs core nursing assistant tasks: ADLs, point-of-care testing, weights, vital signs, I&O, telemetry monitor application, HAC & PSI prevention, simple dressings, restraints, bladder scans, specimen collections, and patient transport. Reports equipment malfunctions and communicates effectively with other departments. Establishes professional and respectful relationships. Contributes to unit activities like responding to call lights, passing meal trays, and transporting patients. Receives feedback constructively and communicates learning needs. Improves knowledge, skills, and performance; participates in self-review. Communicates clearly with the healthcare team and understands cultural diversity and workplace safety. Provides patient care, assists with therapies, and reports patient status changes. Instructs patients and families under RN direction; manages patient restraints. Adheres to patient care policies and safety procedures. Documents in medical records and completes clerical functions as needed. Performs advanced skills like phlebotomy, IV removal, Foley catheter removal, arrhythmia monitoring, 12-lead EKGs, and NG tube management based on department needs. Performs in accordance with system-wide competencies/behaviors. Performs other duties as assigned.