Join our Pediatric Inpatient team as a Unit Support Assistant and help create a welcoming, organized, and well-supported environment for our patients, families, and clinical team.
In this role, you'll help keep the unit running smoothly by preparing and resetting patient rooms for admissions and discharges, maintaining supplies and equipment, and supporting a variety of administrative needs. You'll also serve as the unit's welcoming face for patients and families while assisting with bed management, scheduling, admissions, and throughput.
Additional responsibilities include supporting the infant security system, maintaining unit cleanliness and readiness, and helping the team stay on top of important operational and regulatory requirements, including point-of-care testing, lab due dates, nurse fit testing, and compliance tracking.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is organized, dependable, and enjoys being part of a busy, team-oriented environment where no two days are exactly alike!
This is a FT 40hr/week role. The schedule is M-F, and nights. The midnight hour is essential for coverage, but there is some flexibility in the shift being 6p-2a, 5p-1a, or 7p-3a.
Assists the interdisciplinary team in providing a well-supplied, safe, and clean inpatient unit that meets regulatory standards.
Acts as front line representative of unit. Interacts with families and visitors in the unit. Answers telephone calls and assists in the overall functioning of the unit. Communicates with other departments as needed.
Coordinates with the Unit leader to ensure the unit meets regulatory, safety, and infection prevention standards, monitors and intervenes as necessary to maintain environment of care standards.
Ensures the unit is well supplied and equipment is available and working.
Utilizes support systems and resources to document patient status and flow.
Maintains chart information that is up-to-date, organized, and in compliance with Health Information Services (HIS) requirements.
Accesses secure medication locations limited to receiving and floor stock storage areas in order to manage the storage, handling, beyond use dating, and disposal of medications consistent with the Medication Storage and Handling Policy.
Performs other duties as required or assigned.
How can the lifestyle in New Hampshire and Vermont compliment your career? You can have amazing 4-season living with a career at one of the top health systems in the country. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; 4 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth-Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. We are close to the urban centers of Boston, New York and Montreal, but also offer proximity to the seacoast and multiple top-tier ski mountains within a short driving distance. Throughout New Hampshire, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make our area the ideal place to work and play.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
