Patient Care Assistant - NIGHTS - FULL TIME

About the role

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) is a private, nonprofit community-based healthcare system that provides care to a 22-county region in North Florida and South Georgia. With over 6,000 colleagues, TMH is the region's healthcare leader and top provider of advanced care, featuring a 772-bed acute care hospital and the region's only Level II Trauma Center, Primary Stroke Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care, Pediatric Intensive Care, and the most advanced cancer, heart and vascular, orthopedic & surgery programs in the Panhandle. The system also includes a psychiatric hospital, multiple specialty care centers, six residency programs, and more than 50 affiliated physician practices.

Under direct supervision of a licensed nurse, the Patient Care Assistant performs a variety of routine duties involving care of medically ill acute or sub-acute patients, observing and reporting changes in patient behavior and physical status, and providing a clean and safe environment.

Responsibilities

• Assisting with activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, grooming, shaving, oral and denture care, skin and nail care, bed making, and maintaining a clean environment.)
• Promoting and maintaining mobility (ambulating, transferring, transporting, turning, positioning, lifting, and performing range of motion exercises.)
• Assisting with nutrition and hydration (feeding and assisting patients with eating and drinking.)
• Assisting with toileting and elimination (assisting with the use of bedpan/urinal/bedside commode, providing catheter care, and care of the incontinent patient.)
• Performing data gathering and recognizing abnormal findings (measures and records vital signs, weight, oral intake, output including urine, emesis, and stool.)

Requirements

• Required Education: None
• Required Experience: None (note: minimum experience for float pool assignments is six (6) months)
• Preferred Experience: One (1) year of job-related experience preferred
• Required Certification/License/Registry: Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (required prior to performing patient care; TMH may provide on-site BLS certification training as part of clinical orientation as needed)

Reports to: Registered Nurse (RN)/Nurse Manager or RN/Assistant Nurse Manager. No supervisory responsibilities.

Schedule

Orientation requires availability to complete Clinical Orientation on your first full week (Monday‑Friday, 8 am‑5 pm).