Unit Assistant

To perform delegated duties including the preparation of patients and equipment, ordering supplies, running errands and other non-nursing duties related to patient care.

• Education: - High school diploma or equivalent.Experience:- One year related experience in a hospital preferredIndividuals must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities or be able to explain and demonstrate that the individual can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of skills and abilities and to possess the necessary physical requirements, with or without the aid of mechanical devices to safely perform the essential functions of the job:1. Ability to deliver patient care in a manner that is appropriate to the demographics and/ or specific needs of the patient population served by the hospital.2. Demonstrates proficiency in assessing, responding and adapting treatment of care to meet the needs of the patient population served by the hospital. 3. Physical requirements include ability to bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist; bend the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine; bend legs at knee to come to rest on knee or knees; extending hand (s) and arm (s) in any direction; stand for sustained periods of time; moving about on foot to accomplish tasks; using upper extremities to exert steady force in order to thrust forward, downward, or outward; use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion; raising object from a lower to a higher position or move objects horizontally from position-to-position; pick, pinch, type or otherwise work with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm; apply pressure to an object with fingers and palm; perceive attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips. 4. Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Essential functions include activities in which incumbent must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to patients, physicians, families and other employees, loudly or quickly. - 5. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discrim