About this role
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Job Description:
Winchester Hospital is a 5x Magnet designated, Top 10 Massachusetts recognized 223-bed regional hospital that is the leading provider of comprehensive health care services in the northwest suburban Boston area.
Working under the direction of a nurse, the Clinical Associate contributes to the Hospital’s mission by performing basic procedures necessary to provide patients’ care, comfort, and safety. This clinical staff position will have an impact on the quality of care and patient satisfaction by providing for their physical and emotional needs.
Schedule: 36 hours/week, night shift, including every other weekend and holiday rotation
As a Clinical Associate at Winchester Hospital, you will be responsible (but not limited to) for the following:
- Assisting with activities of daily living
- Repositioning and ambulating patients
- Making an occupied and unoccupied bed
- Assisting in transporting patients, beds, supplies and equipment
- Collecting, labeling and transporting specimens
- Retrieving and signing out blood products
- Accurately performs point of care testing
- Obtains vital signs and weights
- Maintains accurate intake and output measurements
- Removes Foley catheters and saline locks
Education Required: High school diploma/equivalent is strongly preferred
Certifications: BLS – Basic Life Support
Must have/be one of the following:
- Certified Nursing Assistant
- Nursing Student with completion of one medical-surgical clinical rotation
- Three months of clinical care experience
- Successful completion of the Winchester Hospital: Clinical Associate Training Program (CATP)
Other Skills/Knowledge:
Required: For safety and quality reasons, must be able to read, write and communicate effectively in English with patients, visitors and fellow members of the hospital team
Preferred: Basic computer skills
Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is an integrated health system dedicated to creating healthier communities — one person at a time — through seamless care and ground-breaking science, driven by excellence, innovation and equity.
Founded in 2019, our system brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, primary and specialty care, behavioral health and home care services, and more than 5,900 physicians and 36,000 employees to care for more than 1.7 million patients in communities across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Together, we are changing healthcare for the better.
Pay Range:
$19.50 - $26.24The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Other facts
About Beth Israel Lahey Health
Anna Jaques Hospital is a not-for-profit community hospital serving the Merrimack Valley, North Shore and Southern New Hampshire.
Our mission is to provide measurably high quality medical care, in alliance with our medical staff. Anna Jaques is recognized for delivering high quality community health care at a lower cost, with an emphasis on patient satisfaction. The hospital is clinically affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Boston academic medical center and major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School.
What you'll do
- The Clinical Associate assists with activities of daily living, repositioning, and ambulating patients, contributing to their care and comfort. This role also involves transporting patients and specimens, performing point of care testing, and maintaining accurate measurements.
Ready to join Beth Israel Lahey Health?
Take the next step in your career journey