Patient Care Technician (PCT) | Med/Surg/Peds | PRN

Location: Avera St Luke's Hospital

Worker Type: PRN

Work Shift: Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends

Pay Range: The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience. $18.00 - $23.50

Position Highlights

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Why You’ll Love It Here

• Positive Work Environment
• Be part of a team that truly lives its mission every day—where compassion, respect, and teamwork shine.
• Makes a Real Impact
• Every shift is meaningful. You’ll make a difference in the lives of patients and families you serve.
• Flexible Schedule
• Schedule Varied; As Needed
• You Belong at Avera
• Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients.
• Work Where You Matter

Responsible for

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs.
• Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
• Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinate appointments with respective departments.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms.
• Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.

Essential Qualifications

• The individual must be able to work the hours specified.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, Or Work Experience

• High School or GED Equivalent
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board
• Minimum Age Requirements: 16