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type: 'JobPosting'
title: 'Patient Care Technician, 4IU (Medical Respiratory Intermediate Unit)'
url: 'https://pepper2.socialhost.dev/job/23362453/patient-care-technician-4iu-medical-respiratory-intermediate-unit/'
job_id: '23362453'
organization: 'SFX Demo'
location: 'Erie, PA'
employment_type: 'Full-Time'
date_posted: '2025-12-10T21:48:35.553Z'
date_modified: '2026-05-18T09:14:25.253Z'
---

# Patient Care Technician, 4IU (Medical Respiratory Intermediate Unit)

- Location: Erie, PA
- Employment type: Full-Time
- Category: Patient Care Support
- Shift: Day Job
- Business unit: ST Health Hamot
- Pay: $19.19–$28.18 / hr
- Organization: SFX Demo
- Posted: 2025-12-10T21:48:35.553Z

## Description

**ST Health Hamot is hiring a full-time Patient Care Technician to join the team on 4 Medical Respiratory Intermediate unit!**

**If you’re passionate about patient care and looking for a career that offers great benefits and plenty of room for growth, we invite you to explore this opportunity today!**

**Previous healthcare experience preferred.**

***Title and salary will be determined based upon education and experience.***

**Responsibilities:**

- Assist with patient procedures and ADLs, support physical, respiratory, and cardiopulmonary therapies, provide feedback to RN and report changes in patient status.

- Perform core nursing assistant tasks: blood glucose monitoring, weights, vital signs, I&O, specimen collections, Foley care, plus at least four additional tasks (phlebotomy, 12-lead EKG, simple dressing, Foley catheter removal, point of care testing, bladder scan, straight catheter, IV catheter removal).

- Report equipment malfunctions, communicate effectively with other departments, maintain professional and respectful relationships.

- Respond to call lights and telephones, pass meal trays, transport patients.

- Receive and act on feedback, identify and communicate learning needs, participate in self-review.

- Provide instruction to patients and families under RN direction, apply, monitor, and remove patient restraints as per protocol.

- Communicate clearly with healthcare team, understand cultural diversity, horizontal violence, and impairment in health professions, support workplace safety.

- Follow all patient care and hospital policies, comply with safety policies and standard precautions.

- Suggest and support departmental changes, assume responsibility for assignments, support department projects and quality initiatives.

- Document in medical records as per procedures, perform clerical functions as needed.

- Achieve and maintain competency in advanced skills based on department need (phlebotomy/venipuncture, peripheral IV removal, indwelling Foley catheter removal, basic arrhythmia, 12-lead EKG, NG tubes clamping and removal).

- High school diploma or equivalent

- Must have one of the following:

- 1 year of general healthcare experience

- 6 months as ST Health Nursing Assistant/CNA with PCT competency within 120 days of hire/transfer/promotion

- Enrollment in PT/OT/PA program or related healthcare training with at least one clinical rotation completed

- Bachelor’s degree in a health sciences field

- Successful completion of ST Health patient care technician class Successful completion of basic information system training

- Microcomputer experience preferred Effective oral and written communication skills

- EMT or Paramedic certification or enrollment in an EMT or Paramedic program preferred

- Limited access to medications, only for distribution to the nurse

**Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:**

- Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire

- ACLS preferred

**ST Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran**

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