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**Job Type:** Per Diem

**Time Type:** Part time

**Work Shift:** Day (United States of America)

**FLSA Status:** Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Working under the direction of a nurse, this clinical staff position contributes to the Hospital’s mission by assisting the team in preparing rooms and equipment and assists with patient care to facilitate an orderly, efficient and safe clinical environment. Utilizes compassion, empathy, and respect to collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to achieve expected outcomes, specifically this position will have a direct impact on reducing patient harm by ensuring the equipment and scopes are properly cleaned and disinfected.

Job Description:

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Required:

+ High School Diploma or equivalent

And

+ Completion of a Certified Nurse’s Assistant course

Or

+ Nursing Student with two completed clinical rotations

Experience:

**Required:** Phlebotomy, EKG or Nursing Assistant

**Preferred** : ACU or Medical/Surgical

Other Skills/Knowledge:

Required:

+ Basic computer skills

+ For safety and quality reasons, must be able to read, write and communicate effectively in English with patients, visitors and fellow members of the hospital team.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS:

**Preferred** : Certification Nursing Assistant

**LIFE SUPPORT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED:** Basic Life Support

**POPULATION SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS:** Infant, Children, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric

OTHER JOB REQUIREMENTS:

**On-call:** N/A

**Schedule requirements:** Schedule and hours may vary based on departments’ needs and fluctuating census.

**Travel requirements:** May be scheduled or rotated between sites.

JOB FUNCTIONS

Consistent with the WE CARE principles and inherent in a hospital environment, employees must be flexible in meeting patients’ and the Hospital’s needs. While the list below describes the primary functions of this job, all employees at Winchester Hospital need to recognize that an essential element of their job is the ability to respond to unanticipated and/or changing situations. This may result in assuming responsibilities or tasks, which are not on this list.

As part of the Patient Care Services team, this position:

+ Provides quality and safe patient care under the direction of a nurse.

+ Provides knowledge of reprocessing scopes and scope washing machines, cleans, disinfects and maintains endoscopic equipment

+ Independently performs turn over of procedure rooms (remove used scopes; changing over suction & O2 tubing; performs terminal cleaning of equipment, setting up room case dependant, inspects equipment and Endosoft to insure proper functioning) ensures expedient turnaround time in a neat environment.

+ Facilitates patients in and out of procedure room;

+ Obtain vital signs

+ Record findings

+ Reports abnormal issues to nurse

+ Secures belongings

+ Removes IVs

+ Dresses wounds

+ Cleans and makes stretchers to expedite turnover

+ Maintains appropriate supplies for each patient care area, addressing inventory issues in a timely manner and recommending appropriate par levels

+ Coordinates work schedule with departmental supervisor or designee to provide coverage

+ Communicates effectively with the healthcare team utilizing established handoff procedures. Gives and accepts respectful feedback to enhance teamwork

+ Minimizes preventable harm events and consistently executes the infection control protocols. Adheres to quality and safety guidelines and communicates near-miss or potential risks utilizing performance improvement methodologies

+ Responds to equipment issues in a timely manner to ensure availability of equipment and to maximize its useful life

+ Maximizes patient throughput to minimize operational delays

DEPARTMENT SPECIFIC JOB FUNCTIONS

ACU Unit:

+ Assists physician at hospital site with procedures (minor surgery; bone marrow aspiration; lumbar puncture)

+ Performs glucometer point of care testing

+ At the beginning of day checks needle boxes, restocks linen, gloves and IV supplies, cleans and prepares stretchers

Endoscopy Center:

+ Draws blood, performs EKGs and performs glucometer point of care testing.

+ Restocks procedure rooms at end of day for off site

+ Cleans conference room at end of day for off site

PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REQUIREMENTS / CONDITIONS

+ The employee needs to have the physical and mental abilities to perform the duties of the position listed above using the WE CARE behaviors.

+ It is anticipated that the employee will have contact with blood, bodily fluids or other potentially infectious materials while performing their job duties.

+ It is anticipated that employee will have contact with potentially hazardous chemicals while performing their job duties.

+ The list below is intended to describe the physical and sensory ability requirements of the position; however those requirements may vary, sometimes considerably, based on meeting patient and operational needs.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more (https://www.bilh.org/newsroom/bilh-to-require-covid-19-influenza-vaccines-for-all-clinicians-staff-by-oct-31) about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity** **Employer/Veterans/Disabled