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When you join the Cleveland Clinic’s Strongsville Family Health and Surgery Center team, you become a caregiver at one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. This patient-friendly facility offers a wide array of services to provide patients with unparalleled care and support. Here, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless appreciation and build a rewarding career.

As an Outpatient Clinical Care Assistant, you will provide care to diverse populations of patients under the supervision of a physician or nurse. An Outpatient Clinical Care Assistant in this role is familiar with performing health screenings, collecting specimens, updating health records, keeping medical supplies stocked, maintaining examination areas, and monitoring, recording, and communicating patients’ conditions. Outpatient Clinical Care Assistants also perform administrative duties, such as appointment scheduling and patient registration, which offer a unique learning opportunity to expand your skillset.  

This is a PRN role. A caregiver in this position will work between 8:00am and 4:30pm with rotating evenings and weekends. This position will float to other CCF facilities as needed.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Complete rooming process, including vitals, height, weight, and completion of intake questions and documents and reports abnormal findings to RN or LIP. 

• Collect patient specimens, perform Point of Care Testing, and prepare specimens for transport to lab. 

• Prepare patients for exams, tests and procedures and assist with exams, treatments and procedures using sterile techniques as applicable. 

• Perform patient treatments as directed, to include the application of heat or cold, simple sterile dressing changes, and application and removal of casts, braces, and splints. 

• Document in the electronic health record and assists with management of in-baskets and closure of care gaps. 

• Assist with setting up the clinic for daily operations and closing clinic in accordance with departmental guidelines. 

• Stock supplies and linens as applicable. Cleans, monitors expiration dates and restocks dressing supply cart, checks AED units and oxygen tanks, and empties needle boxes using appropriate safety measures. 

• Maintain all designated work areas in a clean and orderly manner. 

• Perform administrative or clerical duties as assigned, including filing, reception, scheduling, data entry, patient outreach, and patient registration. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• High School Diploma or GED 

• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or the American Red Cross 

• One year recent health care experience in a hospital, ambulatory, homecare, assistant living, nursing home or long-term care setting 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Proficient in the use of electronic medical records 

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full body motion to move and lift patients, manual finger dexterity with good eye-hand coordination; involves extensive standing and walking.
• Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly (Constantly: activity or condition exists 2/3 or more of the time) to move objects.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster. 

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.