San Juan Regional Medical Center looking for Patient Care Tech – Unit Secretary – Full Time Days -Surgical Unit at Farmington, New Mexico Full Time

Patient Care Techs (PCTs) are an integral part of a patient-focused team who use their knowledge, skills, and energy to carry out the sacred task of helping others. They serve as the communication hub for the patient care environment and are responsible for creating and maintaining a care environment conducive to healing.

Required Behaviors:
• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC’s values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED
• Six (6) months of nursing assistant experience or certification
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification within two (2) weeks of hire
• Legible printing
• Clear speaking voice
• Typing/computer skills
• Mature, courteous deportment
• Driver’s license free of violation for SJRIR

Preferred Qualifications:

• Medical terminology required prior to unit orientation or documentation of formal class within three (3) years
• Previous experience
• Multi-language ability

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates commitment to professional growth and development for self and others
• Collaborates with all team members to provide skillful, supportive care for all patients
• Communicates pertinent information to members of the patient care team
• Supports and participates in performance improvement activities
• Provides quality internal and external customer service
• Possesses communication skills strong enough to participate with the team, manage conflict, and work successfully with the public
• Has ability to perform accurately and quickly in a busy, stressful environment, setting priorities as to duties
• Deals with the emotional stress of caring for dying and chronically ill patients
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:
Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Meets OSHA training requirements
• Potential exposure to blood and bodily fluids
• Intermittent or prolonged standing, walking, and sitting
• Effectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients and families
• Accepts the risk of job-related illness and injury which may cause long-term health problems
• Repetitive motions (i.e., wrist/hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity as in typing, writing, faxing, filing papers, etc.)
• Able to lift greater than fifty (50) pounds and push up to three hundred (300) pounds using approved hospital transport devices

San Juan Regional Medical Center is a community owned and operated hospital located in the beautiful San Juan River Valley in northwest New Mexico. A non-profit hospital serving the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, we have a rich heritage dating back to before New Mexico was a state. In 1910, two physicians, Dr. G.W. Sammons and Dr. A.M. Smith, saw a community need for quality healthcare close to home. They started an eight-bed hospital so patients would not have to travel the treacherous 50 miles to Durango, Colorado. Today, the focus on serving the community with quality healthcare services remains, although our hospital has grown into a 198 bed, level III trauma center including state-of-the-art operating suites and 165 private patient rooms with fresh air balconies. As a 340B hospital , SJRMC is committed to good stewardship principles to enhance services and care for our patients.

New Mexico has been named number 3 in the nation for best places to work as a nurse by WalletHub. As a community owned and operated hospital, we are proud to provide excellent care to our community. Here in the Four Corners, life matters. Family matters. Community matters. Better matters. YOU matter.

San Juan Regional Medical Center, a large nonprofit hospital, has a rich history and reputation of excellence. We are committed to providing the best healthcare in the community that we serve. It is because of our employees that we get the opportunity to provide the best care within the Four Corners. From nursing, support staff, to administration, we strive to provide our employees with a safe and healthy work environment that cultivates independence, teamwork, initiative and opportunities for growth through personal and professional support, training and development. Our compassionate employees come with a servant’s heart, like the many previous generations of San Juan Regional Medical Center. This is why better is our mission.