What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Care Partner position at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital?
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Clinical Care Partner, you will be a vital and collaborative member of our healthcare team, delivering compassionate, confidential patient care. This role focuses on essential patient care needs, ensuring dignity and a safe environment for all patients across various age groups, from infancy to later life.
Every day, you will perform a wide range of essential patient care tasks, including personal hygiene support, skin care, vital signs monitoring, and assistance with feeding and ambulation. You'll also manage documentation, support patient movement, and meticulously maintain environmental safety and equipment readiness.
To be successful in this role, you will possess strong clinical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to collaborate effectively within a healthcare team. You will be physically capable of performing duties involving heavy work and demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning and quality improvement in patient care.
- PERSONAL HYGIENE: AM/PM Care, Bath, partial and complete bed, Bath, tub or shower, Back rub, HS care, Oral hygiene, Shampoo, Medicinal shampoo, Shave, face, Denture care, Hearing aid care, Nail care, cleaning of, Care of patient belongings, Peri Care.
- SKIN CARE: Alternating pressure mattress, Air bed (TCU only), Back care, Incontinent care, Heel and elbow protectors, Preoperative skin preparation, Orthopedic skin prep/care, Nonlegend topical ointments, creams, lotions to intact skin.
- DIET/ELIMINATION: Monitoring intake/output, Feeding the patient, Pre/post-meal care, Meal pass, pick up,Nourishments, Water, Bedpan, give or empty, Emesis, Enema, cleansing, Enema, retention, Enema, Harris flush, Impaction, removal (not in TCU), Urinal, giving an removing, Urinary drainage, Menu assistance.
- VITAL SIGNS: Blood pressure, Pulse, apical/radial, Respirations, Temperature, oral, Temperature, rectal, Weight, balance scale, Weight, bed scale, Pain Score.
- AMBULATION: Assist in and out of chair, Assist in and out of wheelchair, Assist to walk, Simple physical therapy under direction of RN: Assist to walk with crutches, Assist to walk with walker, Assist to walk with cane, Assist with simple exercises.
Required
- CNA is required , unless successful completion of 1st clinical semester of RN or LVN nursing program and continued enrollment in RN or LVN program OR
- Certified Nursing Assistant: CA (CA CNA)
- Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS) through the American Heart Association
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1958, Dignity Health - Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital is a 104-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Grass Valley, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital, has been recognized as an LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center. It has been named a Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for three consecutive years, one of only 16 rural hospitals in the US to achieve this award.
One Community. One Mission. One California
Salary : $26 - $32