Job Details
Schedule: Full-time 36 hours, Day/Evening. (3) 12 hour shifts, 7:00 am - 7:30 pm. Every other weekend and holiday rotation
The Unit Service Technician provides a broad range of care and services to Patients, including but not to limited to EKG, phlebotomy, equipment cleaning, and stocking of rooms under the supervision of a licensed nurse. The Unit Service Technician performs a wide range of secretarial duties, including but not limited to organizing paper work, answering the phone, paging, and receiving of ICU patients into electronic medical record. The Unit Service Technician will perform 1:1 sitting when necessary. The Unit Service Technician of the ICU will also assure the practice of the Patient and Family Centered Care Model in an environment that exemplifies best practice.
Grade: 135
About Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, an affiliate of Mass General Brigham, is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. We place great value on being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients we serve. At Mass General Brigham, we believe in equal access to quality care, employment and advancement opportunities encompassing the full spectrum of human diversity: race, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other forms of human presence and expression that make us better able to provide innovative and cutting-edge healthcare and research.
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a 171- bed non-profit, community teaching hospital located in Jamaica Plain directly across the street from the Arnold Arboretum. Founded in 1900, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital offers comprehensive care in a wide variety of specialties. Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital is a designated Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, a recognition that fewer than nine percent of all US hospitals receive.
At Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, we believe that everyone should have the chance to live a healthy life. From creating breakthroughs that have paved the way for treatments around the globe to training the next generation of providers, our patients, and those we may never meet, are at the center of everything we do. If you're looking for more than a career, join Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital. Our patients call it better care. Our employees call it home.
Required qualifications
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Certified Nursing Assistant, EMT or current Nursing Student who has completed Fundamentals of Nursing or equivalent med/surgical clinical rotation.
- Certification in Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers required.
- Current Patient Care Assistant Certificate required.
Additional qualifications
- Experience as a medical technician or patient care assistant in preferred in an critical care and inpatient setting.
- Ability to work in a fast pace, physically taxing environment.
- Staff adheres to all I C.A.R.E. Standards.
- Ability to effectively speak, read and write using the English language.
- Ability to pass clinical competency, basic math and reading testing. Ability to perform basic math calculations and measurements, in order to measure height and weight, intake and output and calorie counts.
- Physical ability to push, transfer, and pull heavy loads throughout assigned shift.
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills to interact appropriately with nursing staff, patients, families/visitors, physicians, and other hospital staff.