Clinical Support Tech II - Transplant Acute Care Unit

Clinical Support Tech II – Transplant Acute Care Unit

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Clinical Support Tech II (Nursing Assistant II + clerical) is needed for Transplant Acute Care Unit – 5 West, a 15‑bed unit dedicated to caring for abdominal transplant, urology, and plastic surgery patients. Our team delivers highly specialized, cutting‑edge care. Each year we perform over 125 kidney, pancreas, and liver transplants, and our transplant program is certified by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

We care for high‑risk plastic surgery patients requiring complex wound management and reconstructive grafts, and we support a nationally ranked UNC Urology program.

Position: 36 hours per week, 12‑hour rotating shifts (7 am – 7:30 pm and 7 pm – 7:30 am) with weekend and holiday rotation. The role qualifies for an extensive benefit package, including paid time off accrued based on worked hours.

• Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, and procure equipment and supplies.
• Critically review patient‑care documentation for significant changes and report promptly to a registered nurse or physician.
• Perform a wide range of clerical tasks: organizing workflow, greeting visitors, researching information requested by nurses and physicians, reviewing orders for logic and clarity, revising orders as requested, answering the telephone/patient call lights, transcribing physician orders, and maintaining medical records. Conduct routine quality‑assurance audits, safety checks, and inventory inspections.
• Provide administrative and clerical support, including PI audits and data entry.
• Assist with clinical support: cleaning the work area, maintaining office equipment, troubleshooting common software and hardware problems, changing linens, checking and re‑stocking supplies, transporting patients, supplies, and specimens, and orienting new employees and students.
• Institute direct personal care to patients per plan of care: bathing, dressing, feeding, ambulation assistance, measuring and recording vital signs, height and weight. May manage specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range‑of‑motion exercises, postural drainage, oxygen room set‑up, oxygen flow‑rate monitoring, oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal suctioning, tracheostomy care, fecal impaction removal, sterile dressing change, wound irrigation, IV fluid assembly and monitoring, IV site care, peripheral IV discontinuation, ostomy irrigation and care, urinary catheterization and irrigation, and established oral, nasogastric, gastrostomy tube feeding.
• Reinforce routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding. Distribute patient education materials as requested by patients or health care providers.

• Education: High School diploma or General Education Development (GED).
• Licensure / Certification: Listed as a Nursing Assistant I by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; licensed as a Nursing Assistant II by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services;
  Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Experience: One year of clerical or customer‑service experience and three months of nursing assistant experience.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Fluent in verbal and written English; ability to develop computer skills if not already competent.

• Legal
  
  Employer:
  
  STATE
• Entity: UNC Medical Center
• Organization Unit:
  Transplant 5 West
• Work Type:
  Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00
• Salary Range: $18.84 – $26.77 per hour (Hiring Range). Pay is determined by experience and internal equity.
• Work Assignment Type:
  Onsite
• Work Schedule:
  
  Rotating
• Location:
  
  US:
  
  NC:
  
  Chapel Hill
• Exempt From Overtime:
  No

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation. UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities.

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