Avera Health·Rock Rapids, Iowa
Provide routine direct patient care including bathing, feeding, and ambulation while responding to call lights. Perform clerical tasks related to admissions, discharges, and coordinating diagnostic appointments.
Work Shift: Day/Evening/Weekend/Holiday Shift (United States of America)
The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.
$18.00 - $23.50
Position Highlights: You Belong at Avera
Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.
Responsible for providing routine patient care and support services in accordance with established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the nurse or physician, to assure that the highest degree of quality patient care is maintained at all times.
ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs. Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff.
Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed.
Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies.
Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinate appointments with respective departments. Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients.
Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms.
Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death.
Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.
The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.
Minimum Age Requirements 16
Benefits: You Need & Then Some
Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application, please call 1-605-504-4444 or send an email to talent@avera.org [talent@avera.org].
Requires a high school diploma or GED and a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) license. Candidates must be at least 16 years old and possess the physical and communicative ability to perform essential care functions.
Market context
In Iowa, support-services roles often see steady demand because healthcare and home-based care settings rely on dependable staff for daily assistance and continuity. These positions can be competitive when employers need candidates with active Iowa CNA certification, homemaker-home health aide training, and reliable transportation. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this platform to save time, then confirm your license, insurance, and background-check readiness before applying.
