Patient Care Tech
About the role
Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. As a Patient Care Technician (PCT) at HCA Healthcare Trident Hospital in Charleston, SC, you will be a vital part of our collaborative nursing team, supporting Registered Nurses in providing hands-on care and helping create a safe, welcoming environment for patients. You'll assist with daily needs such as vital signs, mobility, and personal care, while helping RNs monitor conditions and carry out care plans. Your attention, empathy, and teamwork help restore comfort and dignity for every patient you serve and make our mission to improve lives a reality each day. Units available are MedSurg Neuro and Progressive Care Unit (PCU). Positions are available for part-time weekend days and full-time nights (7p to 7a). Founded in 1975, HCA Healthcare Trident Hospital has been serving patients and families throughout Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties for 50 years. As a 320+ bed Level II Trauma Center, the hospital provides comprehensive healthcare services, advanced specialty care, and 24/7 emergency treatment, earning recognition as the #1 Trauma Center in the Lowcountry. Key highlights include an award‑winning Heart Center, home to the South Carolina Institute for Robotic Surgery, comprehensive breast health services through the Trident Breast Care Center, the Joseph M. Still Burn Clinic (the region’s only outpatient burn clinic for patients of all ages), 24/7 Hospitalist and Intensivist coverage, and Healthgrades Five‑Star recognition for cardiovascular care, neurosciences, critical care, and patient safety outcomes. The health system also operates four freestanding emergency rooms (FSERs) offering 24/7 emergency care: Brighton Park Emergency (Summerville), Centre Pointe Emergency (North Charleston), James Island Emergency (Charleston), and Moncks Corner Medical Center (Berkeley County), with a Long Point Free Standing ED coming soon, providing convenient, around‑the‑clock access to emergency services across the greater Charleston region.
Responsibilities
- Obtaining vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, calorie counts, application of ice/heat, and/or simple non-sterile dressing changes.
- Answering patient call lights in a timely manner and respond to patient needs/requests.
- Assisting patients with performing activities of daily living to include bathing, shaving, oral care, toileting, grooming, changing linens, providing water, ambulating, assisting with meal delivery and feeding as directed.
- Safe patient handling: turning and positioning, use of specialty beds, patient transfer and use of transfer devices, ambulation assistance and use of assistive devices, restraint alternatives, oxygen use and transport, suction use, pre-operative skin preparation and/or use of sequential compression devices (SCD).
- Recording information in the patient