Patient Care Technician-Riverview

Patient Care Technician – Riverview – Full Time – Days

Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, New Jersey

Requisition # | Shift: Day | Status:
Full Time with Benefits

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better – advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

• Providing patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the guests/patients served in assigned service.
• Providing for effective and safe guest/patient outcomes through practice, judgement and critical actions.
• Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status and rendered care.
• Taking self‑directed or self‑motivated initiative to do more than is expected or required in the job, acting before being required to by events, improving job performance, and/or creating new opportunities.
• Participating in interdisciplinary collaboration of our patient's plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Participating in Unit/Department Performance Improvement (PI) activities.

• High School diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Completion of one of the following:
  Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant or Patient Care Technician program;
  Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited school of nursing; or HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program; or equivalent medical background experience (EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant). Candidates not completing one of the programs but meeting other requirements may be considered for the HMH PCT Apprentice Program.
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education and the ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care and service.

• Experience or certification in phlebotomy and checking EKG, vital signs and blood sugar.
• At least one year PCT or CNA experience in a hospital setting, strongly preferred or eligible for the HMH PCT apprentice program.
• Certified Nursing Assistant, Certified Medical Assistant or Patient Care Technician who has successfully completed a PCT program including Phlebotomy, EKG, and nursing assistant courses both theoretical and clinical.

• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification within 60 days of entering position.

Minimum rate of $20.32 hourly.

HMH is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted rate is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting under the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market‑competitive total rewards package.

The starting rate of pay is for information purposes only and is not a guarantee of a specific offer. Posted hourly rates may be stated as an annual salary in the offer and posted annual salaries may be stated as an hourly rate in the offer, depending on the level and nature of the job duties and credentials of the candidate.

The base compensation may differ from the posted rate based on non‑discriminatory factors such as labor market data, experience, education and certifications, skills, geographic location, internal equity, and budget and grant funding. Some jobs may also be eligible for performance‑based incentives, bonuses, or commissions. Certain positions may also be eligible for shift differentials for evening, night, or weekend shifts.

In addition to compensation for full‑time and part‑time (20+ hours/week) positions, HMH offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, vision, paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and retirement benefits.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available to an employer the results of a genetic test, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.