Clinical Partner - Inpatient Care Job Opening

Clinical Partner - Inpatient Care

SSM Health

Bridgeton, Missouri
Category: Nurse Assistant

Role Purpose:
The Patient Care Tech (PCT)/Clinical Partner creates an environment that is customer focused and professional by providing support to the nursing team

Responsibilities:
Contributes to overall quality and safe care for patients by answering patients’ calls for help, taking their vital signs, and monitoring their behavior and physical condition for progress or deterioration as measured by patient satisfaction, quality audits, direct observation.

Creates a positive patient experience by assisting patients with their activities of daily living including assisting with baths, ambulating, feeding, skin care, personal and oral hygiene and making occupied and unoccupied beds as measured by patient satisfaction quality audits and direct observation.

Contributes to quality care and safety by assisting and performing procedures such as performing dressing changes, enemas, ostomy care, toileting, turning, cough and deep breathing, catheter care, collection of biological specimens, measuring and recording intake and output of fluids.

Contributes to exceptional patient satisfaction by establishing a compassionate environment by timely responses to patients' needs, open communication and providing emotional, psychological.

Contributes to safety and quality care by relaying information via charting and communicating to team members.

Contributes to achievement of exceptional health care by functioning as a member of the team as measured by active participation in department initiatives, unit meetings, committees and special projects.

Minimum Qualifications:
High School or equivalent (GED).

Meets one of the following:
Certified Nursing Assistant,

Proof of completion of UAP
Training Program (that meets requirements of Missouri Department
of Health and Senior Services) within last 3 years,

Documented experience as nurse assistant, EMT, or surgical tech in the past 3 years,

Enrolled in nursing education program and is within
90 days of completing fundamentals of nursing course

Was nursing licensure candidate who failed state licensure
in the past 3 years

Has completed nursing program outside
the U.S. and is awaiting licensure examination in this country.

Requires effective oral and written communication skills to communicate with patients, staff and customers.

Required Certification – BLS

Physical Requirements:
Employees in this position are, or can be, required to possess the following physical capabilities:

Lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling up to 100 lbs.

Stooping, kneeling and/or crouching daily

Standing or walking more than 4 hours a day

Running to respond to patient emergencies

Reaching, grasping, fingering, and/or feeling more than 4 hours a day

Visual acuity in order to correctly distinguish skin tone variations, evidence of IV infiltration, infection; able to read telemetry, blood pressure gauges, etc.

Audio acuity in order to correctly distinguish various body sounds (i.e., respirations, heart tones, bowel sounds).

Audio acuity to discern sounds made by various types of machinery or equipment that would indicate dangerous or improper operation

SSM Health DePaul Hospital – St. Louis –

SSM Health
DePaul Hospital is a 476-bed hospital offering comprehensive medical services,
including inpatient and outpatient surgeries using state-of-the-art technology
and facilities. Opened in 1828, DePaul Hospital - St. Louis was the first
hospital west of the Mississippi River and remains the oldest continuously
existing business in St. Louis. DePaul Hospital serves patients from across the
St. Louis metropolitan area, including the communities of Bridgeton,
Florissant, Hazelwood, St. Ann, St. John, Maryland Heights and Overland.

Benefits Statement:
Our robust employee benefits package includes
health benefits, life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance,
long-term disability coverage, health and dependent care reimbursement
accounts, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, adoption reimbursement, an employee
assistance program, retirement plan options and more.

Note: not all benefits apply to all
openings.