**When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, youre making a difference in peoples lives.**

**Job Type:**

Regular

**Scheduled Hours:**

36

**Work Shift:**

Day (United States of America)

Our values include, but are not limited to, teamwork, respect, communication, and transparency. We strive for excellence in our nursing care and achieve this by working collaboratively with all care team members to ensure the patient, their safety, and their family are at the center of all we do.

Nursing Assistant Training Program

**Job Description:**

**Position Summary** **:**

Lahey Hospital & Medical Centers (LHMC) Nursing Education department has developed this curriculum to teach acute care skills to individuals with no prior experience.

Nursing Assistants (NA) work on inpatient floors and primarily work with nurses supporting patients individual needs. While assisting patients with activities of daily living, NAs will be taking blood sugars and blood pressures as well as other supportive tasks, such as taking EKGs and reporting any changes in patients condition to the RN and members of the health care team.

**Program Overview** **:**

LHMC staff teach the curriculum over three weeks. **Participants must be available for the in-person training from June 3rd - June 21st.**

The three-week training program will require a full-time commitment and include a combination of classroom and skills training. Applicants will also receive hands-on training with a clinical instructor on an inpatient medical-surgical unit, and will work hands-on alongside a dedicated preceptor on their assigned medical surgical unit.

Prior to starting, we will discuss which areas, hours and shifts you may have interest in (if any). We will then place you in an open position on one of our Medical Surgical Floors, where you will begin the training program.

After completing the three-week training course, applicants will further their training on their assigned unit until they have successfully completed orientation.

**Selected applicants will start June 3, 2024.**

**Required Training Hours:**

Week 1- 40 hours

Week 2- 40 hours

Week 3- 40 hours

**Minimum Eligibility Requirements** **:**

High school diploma or GED

Availability to work flexible shifts that include day, night and evening shifts, every other weekend, and some holidays

Enjoy challenges and being a part of a team

Have compassion and empathy for others

Be highly motivated and set high standards for self

Possess excellent customer service, computer navigation and communication skills

Have strong attention to detail

Have the physical ability to lift, transfer, and turn patients

**Organizational Requirements** **:**

Incorporates Lahey Clinic Guiding Principles, Mission Statement and Goals into daily activities.

Complies with all Lahey Clinic Policies.

Complies with behavioral expectations of the department and Lahey Clinic.

Maintains courteous and effective interactions with colleagues and patients.

Demonstrates an understanding of the job description, performance expectations, and competency assessment.

Demonstrates a commitment toward meeting and exceeding the needs of our customers and consistently adheres to Customer Service standards.

Participates in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities.

Participates in and successfully completes Mandatory Education.

Performs all other duties as needed or directed to meet the needs of the department.

**FLSA Status:**

Non-Exempt

**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) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more (https://www.bilh.org/newsroom/bilh-to-require-covid-19-influenza-vaccines-for-all-clinicians-staff-by-oct-31) about this requirement.**

**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**