Mobility Tech PRN
Job ID:
R102148
Shift:
2nd
Full/Part Time:
Part_time
Location:
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital – 450 W Highway 22
Barrington, IL 60010
Benefits Eligible:
No
Hours Per Week:
0
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Weekend and Evenings requirements – evening hours would be 6pm to 10pm. The weekend shifts are 8 hours.
Scheduled Hours: PRN/As Needed – Coverage when needed for evening hours and weekends.
Education/Experience Required:
- HS Diploma
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
- BLS
Major Responsibilities:
- Safely and effectively ensure activity, ambulation, and mobility of patients. May assist with ambulation to the bathroom. May assist with unskilled exercises as delegated by RN.
- Assists with patient positioning and proning, transferring, and transporting duties, which may require lifting, pushing, and pulling. May assist patients with sitting up in a chair for meals and setting up meals trays for patients as indicated. May assist in ensuring patient linens are clean and repositioned as indicated.
- Maintains clean and safe environment. May assist in responding to patient call lights. May assist in maintaining work equipment and storage areas.
- Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Ability to lift up to 35 pounds without assistance. For patient lifts of over 35 pounds, or when patient is unable to assist with the lift, patient handling equipment is expected to be used, with at least one other associate, when available. Unique patient lifting/movement situations will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.
This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.
Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois and a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. One of the state’s largest private employers, the system serves patients across 11 hospital locations, including two children’s campuses, and more than 250 sites of care. Advocate Health Care, in addition to Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin and Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, is now a part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides nearly $5 billion in annual community benefits.
