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Respite Technician, Part-time
Boston Health Care for the Homeless ProgramUnited Statespart_timeVerifiedPosted 3 May 2024
💰 $62,220/yr
About the role
Who We Are:
Since 1985, BHCHP’s mission has been to ensure unconditionally equitable and dignified access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in greater Boston. Over 10,000 homeless individuals are cared for by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program each year. We are committed to ensuring that every one of these individuals has access to comprehensive health care, from preventative dental care to cancer treatment. Our clinicians, case managers, and behavioral health professionals work in more than 30 locations to serve some of our community’s most vulnerable—and most resilient—citizens.
From our earliest days as a program, we have always sought to do work that is transformational: recognizing our shared humanity; centering dignity, compassion, mutual respect and supporting the right of every individual to access the highest levels of health care and every staff member to reach their fullest potential. We continue to be committed to building bridges and breaking down barriers, including systemic racism which harms us all. We provide community-based health care services that are compassionate, dignified, and culturally appropriate, incorporating social determinants of health, with the goal of breaking down the physical and systemic barriers that our patients face.
Bilingual, Bicultural, LGBTQIA identifying, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are encouraged to apply.
To learn more about working at BHCHP, watch our video Please Click Here.
Job Summary:
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) is seeking a part-time Respite Technician to work evening hours at the Stacy Kirkpatrick House (SKH) , our 20-bed medical respite facility in Boston.
With direction from the team RN, the Respite Technician will offer clinical support services to the patients and will offer assistance and support to the SKH team RNs. These duties are essential to the overall functioning of the Stacy Kirkpatrick House clinic. The position is crucial to assure the continuity of patient care, providing an essential link for communication involving all departments.
The ideal candidate for this role is a compassionate and self-motivated individual who embraces the mission of BHCHP and is committed to delivering high quality clinical care utilizing a harm reduction approach in a medical respite facility.
Hours: Part-time; 24 hours per week; 7:00 pm -7:30am, weekends
Responsibilities:
Since 1985, BHCHP’s mission has been to ensure unconditionally equitable and dignified access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in greater Boston. Over 10,000 homeless individuals are cared for by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program each year. We are committed to ensuring that every one of these individuals has access to comprehensive health care, from preventative dental care to cancer treatment. Our clinicians, case managers, and behavioral health professionals work in more than 30 locations to serve some of our community’s most vulnerable—and most resilient—citizens.
From our earliest days as a program, we have always sought to do work that is transformational: recognizing our shared humanity; centering dignity, compassion, mutual respect and supporting the right of every individual to access the highest levels of health care and every staff member to reach their fullest potential. We continue to be committed to building bridges and breaking down barriers, including systemic racism which harms us all. We provide community-based health care services that are compassionate, dignified, and culturally appropriate, incorporating social determinants of health, with the goal of breaking down the physical and systemic barriers that our patients face.
Bilingual, Bicultural, LGBTQIA identifying, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are encouraged to apply.
To learn more about working at BHCHP, watch our video Please Click Here.
Job Summary:
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) is seeking a part-time Respite Technician to work evening hours at the Stacy Kirkpatrick House (SKH) , our 20-bed medical respite facility in Boston.
With direction from the team RN, the Respite Technician will offer clinical support services to the patients and will offer assistance and support to the SKH team RNs. These duties are essential to the overall functioning of the Stacy Kirkpatrick House clinic. The position is crucial to assure the continuity of patient care, providing an essential link for communication involving all departments.
The ideal candidate for this role is a compassionate and self-motivated individual who embraces the mission of BHCHP and is committed to delivering high quality clinical care utilizing a harm reduction approach in a medical respite facility.
Hours: Part-time; 24 hours per week; 7:00 pm -7:30am, weekends
Responsibilities:
- Treats patients in a manner that preserves and supports patient confidentiality, patient rights, and patient’s dignity
- Acts as a member of the team of caregivers; collaborates with the team RN throughout the shift to determine appropriate work assignments and priorities, as well as communicating the status of delegated task completion and outcome of patient data findings
- Maintains timely ongoing verbal communication to the team RN in order to assure good patient care and the effective running of the specific team
- Assists nurse/provider during complex treatments/ dressings/ procedures, including but not limited to, doing preps and set-ups for examinations/treatments, assisting during procedures when requested or required
- Accurately collects requested patient data (e.g. vital signs, weights and reason for visits), notifying the team RN of abnormalities
- Performs basic patient testing, including but not limited to urine dip, glucose finger stick and FIT testing
- Assists patients with personal hygiene, including bed baths and showering; assist with patient transfer from wheelchair to bed or to shower
- Provides personal care and one-to-one support for safety for patients needing end-of-life care
- When necessary, escorts patients to off-site appointments; maintains diabetic cart; maintains the oxygen supply for the patients in their
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