Patient Care Partner – Float Pool – Full Time
Make a Meaningful Difference Every Day – Earn up to $5,000.00 in Bonuses!
Join a collaborative healthcare team where you'll provide compassionate, hands-on care to patients across multiple units while building valuable clinical experience in a supportive hospital environment.
Organization Overview
At Guthrie, you'll become part of an integrated healthcare system committed to providing high-quality, patient-centered care throughout the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our caregivers work together to deliver exceptional outcomes while fostering a culture of compassion, teamwork, and continuous learning.
The Patient Care Partner (Float Pool) works alongside Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses to provide direct patient care for individuals of all ages. This role supports multiple patient care units, assisting with activities of daily living, monitoring patient conditions, performing clinical support tasks, and helping create a safe, comfortable environment for patients and their families.
Schedule Details
• Full Time
• Day Shift – 7AM to 7 PM
• Rotating Schedule
• Weekend and holiday requirements may apply
Key Benefits & Perks
• Competitive compensation
• Up to $5,000 Sign-On Bonus
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage from day 1
• 403(b) with employer maching
• Paid Time Off (PTO) - immediate accrual
• Tuition assistance and professional development opportunities
• Employee wellness programs
• Supportive team environment with career growth opportunities
• Opportunity to gain experience across multiple specialty units
Recognition / Awards
• Forbes Best Employers for Healthcare Professionals – 2025
• Forbes Best Employers for Women – 2024, 2025
• Newsweek: America’s Greatest Workplaces - 2025
• Becker’s Best Places to Work – 2024, 2025
• America’s Best-In-State Employers (Pennsylvania) – 2024, 2025
Responsibilities
Participates in the delivery of patient care for population groups under the direction of an RN/LPN including but not limited to the following:
•Lifting, turning, and positioning patients utilizing Safe Patient Handling equipment (> 35 pounds), as appropriate.
•Observing confused and difficult patients
•AM/PM Hygiene care
•Toileting, shaving, washing, brushing hair, dental and mouth care
•Feeding
•Assisting with range of motion exercises
•Mobilizing patients - transfers and ambulation, utilizing Safe Patient Handling equipment (> 35 pounds), as appropriate and following the Mobility protocol
•Exercise protocols
•Discontinuing foley catheter
•Simple dressing changes
•Incentive spirometry supervision
•Surgical preps
•Postmortem care
•Administers cleansing enemas
•Removal of peripheral IV catheters
•Apply external catheter or incontinence device
•Sits with confused/disoriented patients or those requiring 1:1 observation for safety/suicide purposes, as assigned
•Performs and records accurately:
•Temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, heights and weights
•I & O
•Records bowel movements
•ADLs and activities
•Performs and records the following specimen collection:
•Obtains urine, stool, and sputum specimens for patients; instructs patients in proper specimen collection technique.
•Completes EKGs.
•Glucose monitoring in Non-Critical Care Areas
•Conducts bladder scanning
•Basic ostomy care
•Transports patients as needed
•Serves, sets up and retrieves trays
•Distributes water pitchers as appropriate
•Orders and distributes nourishment.
•Transports equipment
•Transports blood products to and from the patient care area.
•Participates in patient safety/patient satisfaction.
•Answers call bells
•Participates in patient rounding
•Reports any signs of abuse to the nursing staff
•Recognizes, troubleshoots and initiates corrective action needed on equipment.
•Maintains neat and tidy environment (empties laundry, delivers equipment, keeps patient rooms clean and safe).
•Inventories and assures disposition of patients' belongings when admitted, transferred, and/or discharged.
•Assures proper storage of equipment.
•Recognizes emergency situations and initiates plan of action
•Notifies RN/LPN of any changes seen in patient's condition
•Complies with policies and procedures of the hospital/nursing department.
•Supports the philosophy of the hospital and department of nursing.
•Maintains CPR certification and practice
•Demonstrates cost-effective patient care by demonstrating proper use and care of equipment, appropriate and prudent use of supplies, accurate charging of supplies, performing other division-specific tasks, and appropriate utilization of available resources.
•Participates in performance improvement activities to improve service and care. Demonstrates strong communication and organizational skills.
•Ability to communicate using telephones, computer systems.
•Answers telephone promptly and politely, identifying self, title, and department. Receives and sends messages in an accurate and timely fashion.
•Communicates with the patients, family, and members of the healthcare team in a concise, tactful and considerate manner. Must represent the hospital in a professional courteous manner, while being sensitive to how others perceive both verbal and non-verbal communications.
Qualifications Education
• High School Diploma or GED required Experience
• No previous healthcare experience required
• Previous patient care or healthcare experience preferred but not required
Skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational and time management abilities
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team
• Ability to recognize changes in patient condition and communicate concerns promptly
• Basic computer and telephone proficiency
• Commitment to providing compassionate, patient-centered care
• Ability to maintain patient confidentiality and professionalism Compensation Compensation is based on experience and applicable organizational pay practices.
Additional Notes
• Provides direct patient care to patients of all ages.
• Current CPR certification required or obtained according to organizational policy.
• Frequent standing, walking, bending, lifting, pushing, and pulling throughout the shift.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and assist with moving patients exceeding 100 pounds using appropriate Safe Patient Handling equipment.
• Exposure to blood, body fluids, communicable diseases, and other healthcarerelated hazards.
• Must demonstrate flexibility to float between patient care units based on staffing and patient care needs.
• Participation in quality improvement initiatives and ongoing education is expected.
• Must adhere to all hospital policies, safety standards, and infection prevention protocols.
Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.
The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
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