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**Job Type:** Regular

**Time Type:** Full 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.

Job Description:

**JOB SUMMARY:** 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.

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.

PROMISE COMMITMENT

When patients enter Winchester Hospital, they are entrusting us with a responsibility that is otherwise normally their own -- the responsibility for their health, well-being, and often, their lives. To honor that trust, all Winchester Hospital employees are expected to demonstrate the PROMISE behaviors of Winchester Hospital in every encounter with patients, coworkers, and the community. PROMISE is an acronym for the following:

Promoting Teamwork

Respect

Ownership

Maintaining a Positive Attitude

Initiative

Safety and Quality

Empathy

All Winchester Hospital employees are expected to exemplify the PROMISE behaviors.

COMPLIANCE COMMITMENT

Winchester Hospital maintains a Compliance Program to ensure that employees comply with all laws, regulations and Joint Commission and other licensure and accreditation standards that apply to our business. The Code of Business Conduct is a vital part of the Compliance Program. Employees must be familiar with the Compliance Program and Code of Business Conduct and must comply with their requirements, and the requirements of any other laws and regulations, policies and procedures affecting the performance of their job. If applicable, employees are expected to comply with standards of conduct outlined by the oversight organization(s) of their profession.

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

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

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