Patient Care Associate ASC

Facility: Ambulatory Surgery Center Lockport

Shift: Shift 1

Status: Part Time w/Benefits FTE: 0.500000

Bargaining Unit: ACE Associates

Exempt from Overtime: Exempt: No

Work Schedule: Days

Hours: Total five days a pay period. Shift primarily 7a-3p, but will rotate to 6a-2p, 7:30a-3:30p, 8a-4p

Summary:

Assists physicians and nurses with assigned post-operative responsibilities and provides patient support activities. Focuses on patient priorities with a kind and caring attitude to ensure quality care. Prepares and takes patient’s vital signs as required by procedure. Escorts patient’s family members to post-operative area. Assists all patients with discharge and exiting the building safely. Coordinates the timeliness of patient transportation. Maintains supplies for pre-operative and post-operative areas.

Responsibilities:

EDUCATION

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum one (1) year of related customer service experience and/or training preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals

• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence

• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or associates of organization

• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's

• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions

• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form

• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of word processing software

WORKING CONDITIONS:

ENVIRONMENT

• While performing the duties of this job, the associate is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of radiation

• The associate is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate