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Patient Care Assistant

$22.51 - $31.79 per hour

CommonSpirit Health

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Patient Care Assistant, you’ll help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities.

Every day, you will directly support patients with tasks such as personal hygiene, mobility, and feeding, while also assisting nursing staff with vital sign monitoring and preparing patient rooms.

Your success in this role comes from your genuine desire to help patients feel better, whether that means giving them fresh bed linens or checking their vitals. You're diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well.

  • Provides direct patient care as delegated by RN staff

  • Monitors and records vital signs

  • Assists in providing personal hygiene and physical care needs

  • Accurately measures, records, and reports intake and output

  • Obtains and records daily weight

  • Performs blood glucose testing using blood glucose meter

Job Requirements

Required

  • High School Graduate, upon hire or

  • High School GED, upon hire and

  • 1-3 years One (1) year direct patient care experience

  • Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Welcome to Continuing Care Hospital, a 25-bed long-term acute care hospital located inside CHI Saint Joseph Hospital. Continuing Care Hospital is recognized as a 12-time winner of the Kentucky Hospital Association Quality award and a 2024 Best Place to Work in Kentucky.

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

Pay Range

$22.51 - $31.79 /hour

We are an equal opportunity employer.

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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