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About the Role

Signet Health is seeking responsible and experienced Patient Care Technicians to provide daily assistance to patients with personal hygiene, grooming, appointments, and activities. This role involves offering emotional support, monitoring vital signs, assisting nursing staff with basic treatments, and ensuring rooms are adequately supplied. The Patient Care Technician is crucial for daily patient care and interaction.

Responsibilities

Understands and adheres to the Westchester Medical Center’s – Behavioral Health Center’s Performance Standards, Policies and Behaviors.
Integrates patient's rights into work practice.
Utilizes current methods of infection control.
Participates in Performance Improvement Initiatives.
Utilizes appropriate steps in the decision-making process to include recognition and priority setting related to patient care and unit-based issues.
Collaborates and communicates with the treatment team.
Completes competency requirements.
Attends mandatory in-services and staff meetings as required/ requested.
Adheres to all policies and procedures including dress code, code of conduct, customer service, attendance and submission of annual physical.
Maintains documentation including shift summaries, significant incident reports, documentation of room checks, etc.
De-escalate and intervene in crises situations as appropriate.
Provide one to one supervision of patients as ordered by medical staff.
Enters all treatment data into the designated clinical application accurately and in a timely manner.
Perform other duties, not listed above, as assigned.
Comply in a timely, honest and quality manner with all Corporate and management reporting requirements, including, but not limited to, DMARS, clinical reporting, Quality reporting, HR and finance reporting requirements.
Read, understand and comply with all Signet policies and procedures.

Requirements

Ability to direct the activities of patients.
Ability to work under potentially stressful conditions.
Ability to deal with individuals / critical situations in an effective manner.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with diverse population.
Ability to work independently.
Sufficient physical ability and perceptive acuity to perform patient care functions.
Successful completion of departmental required training and in-service training.
Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
Ability to follow oral and written instructions.
Ability to read and understand english.

Location

Valhalla, New York

Work Type

12 hour shifts
Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum two (2) years of direct patient care experience preferred.
Previous patient care experience in a behavioral health or hospital setting preferred.

Education Level

Associate Degree from an accredited college or university in a Health and/or Human Services field, preferred.
NYS Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant, and/or Patient Care Technician certificate preferred.
High School Degree or equivalent required.

Salary/Compensations

$20.25/hour

About the Company

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley.
The Behavioral Health Center, located on WMC's Valhalla campus, has been a leading provider of psychiatric services since 1929, offering a full spectrum of inpatient, outpatient, community and emergency care for adults, children, and adolescents.