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Patient Care Technician (PCT) | MCK Oncology

Avera Health·Sioux Falls, South Dakota

$18 - $24/hr·Full Time·On Site·0-2 yrs·Posted 8 days ago
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About the role

Provide routine direct patient care including bathing, feeding, and ambulation while responding to call lights. Perform clerical tasks such as managing admissions, discharges, and coordinating diagnostic appointments.

Location

  • Avera
  • Prairie
  • Center-Sioux
  • Falls
  • Worker
  • Type:
  • Regular
  • Work
  • Shift: Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends (United
  • States of
  • America)
  • Pay
  • Range: The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience. $18.00 - $23.50 Position Highlights 36 hrs per week.
  • Shifts include 6:00am-2:30pm and 2pm-10:30pm. Every 3rd weekend and holiday.

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.

A Brief Overview

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.

What you will do

Provides safe and direct patient care

  • 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.

Essential Qualifications

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.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience

High School or GED Equivalent High school diploma or general education degree (GED) Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board

Minimum Age Requirements 16

Expectations and Standards

  • Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
  • Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
  • Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
  • Maintain confidentiality.
  • Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
  • Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits

You Need & Then Some Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future. PTO available day 1 for eligible hires. Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship 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.

Requirements

Requires a high school diploma or GED and a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) certification. Candidates must be at least 16 years old and capable of meeting the physical and communication demands of the role.

  • high school
  • professional certificate
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Time Management
  • Patient Care
  • Patient Safety
  • Clerical Duties
  • Patient Positioning
  • Vital Signs Monitoring
  • Specimen Collection
  • Medical Documentation
  • Patient Ambulation
  • Dietary Information Entry

Posting details

Employment type
Full Time
Work arrangement
On Site
Experience
0-2 yrs
Salary
$18 - $24/hr
Location
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Posted
Jul 20, 2026
Application
Employer website
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Hiring organization

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Salary listed on 426 jobs
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TypeNonprofit
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