When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities

• Admission/Transfer/Discharge Functions. Ready patients’ room, greet and escort patient to their room, inventory possessions, assist with packing personal possessions.
• Food Service Functions. Prepare patients for meals, serve food trays and snacks, assist with feeding as needed, record food/fluid intake, keep water pitchers filled, assist with after meal care.
• Personnel Functions. Perform all tasks in accordance with policies/procedures, report all complaints/grievances made by the patient.
• Personal Nursing Care Functions. Assist/provide patients with activities of daily living such as oral hygiene, bath functions, dressing/undressing, bowel/bladder functions, transporting, obtaining blood sugar levels, and vital signs in a manner that promotes and maintains patient’s dignity.
• Provide all functions as delegated by Registered Nursing Staff.
• Ensure patient room is ready for expected admission, i.e., name tags, admission kit, etc.
• Conduct purposeful Rounding using the TLC model.
• Respond to call bells in a timely manner
• Alert nursing staff to abnormal findings during the execution of patient care duties
• Stocking patient rooms and patient care areas with supplies needed for patient care
• Updating white board with appropriate information regarding personnel and daily activities
• Help to maintain a safe patient environment free of tripping hazards
• Provide constant observation as a safety sitter to patients once trained
• Comply will all mandatory education as assigned
• Accurately document all relevant patient care activities in the Electronic Medical Record

It is understood that this is a summary of key job functions and does not include every detail of the job that may reasonably be required.

Education/Registration/Certification Required

• High School graduate or equivalency or current enrollment in a co-op program required
• Current MA Certified Nurse Assistant License, EMT License, or current enrollment in a Nursing Program with sufficient hours of clinical rotation required
• Active American Heart Association BLS certification required upon hire
• Must be able to read, write, and follow written and oral directions in English at the 12th grade level.
• Excellent organizational skills and work pace consistent with working in a busy, acute care unit

As with all job assignments, staff may be floated to areas where they are needed.

Application Instructions: Applicants will only be considered for the specific Job Posting to which they apply.  If there are multiple Job Postings for the same or similar role, applicants must apply separately to each posting to ensure consideration.

Pay Range:

This position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement. The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time.  The pay range for this position is established and governed by the terms of the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Employees hired into this position will receive compensation consistent with the terms of the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled