Care Companion II - Nursing Unit - Per Diem
Corning, NYPer Diem$17.47–24.26/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Care Companion II provides observational support in an assigned patient care area and works with the patient care team to support patients across age groups. The role includes companionship, monitoring, communicating patient needs, and helping manage stressful situations. Advanced certification or training and constant or one-to-one observation experience are preferred but not necessary; a high school diploma or equivalent is also preferred.
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Full job description
Position Summary:
Provides general observational support for assigned patient care area. Works with other members of the patient care team to deliver care to patients in age groups including children, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics based on unit population.
Experience:
Advanced Certification or training (i.e. LPN, Crisis Training, Tech) Constant Observation or One to One observation experience preferred, but not necessary.
Education:
HS Diploma or Equivalent preferred
Essential Functions:
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Provide companionship to the patient.
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Alert the RN of patient behavior which could lead to injury.
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Maintain One to One observation status (constant eye sight and within arm's reach at all times) of the patient.
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Maintain Special Observation documentation form (patient's location every 15 minutes) if determined suicide precautions/one to one observation.
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Provide de‐escalation tactics to help control potential stressful situations.
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Communicate patient's needs to patient care team.
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Maintain and respect the patient's responsibility, privacy, and dignity.
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Demonstrates behavior appropriate to keeping the patient relaxed.
Other Duties:
Participates in performance improvement activities to improve service and care.
This position is part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Pay Range $17.47 - $24.26/hour
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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.
The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,435 open Patient Care jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$17.47–24.26/hr
- New York median$23–28/hr317 hourly ranges
- US median$24–34/hr1,959 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $20.87/hr, is 20% below the New York median midpoint ($26/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Patient Care hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 378 open Patient Care jobs in New York and 3,435 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- CVS Health79 open
- RochesterRegional Health51 open
- Northwell Health31 open
- Experience
- Patient Care postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (879 postings).
- Education
- 603 of the 3,435 open Patient Care jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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