OFH LEAD MED TECH

Creative and caring people, this job is for you! The Holgate Center is seeking a Lead Med Tech for our senior living community in Portland, serving 100 residents in our assisted living apartments. 

Holgate Center (HC) strives to provide a positive work environment that fosters collaboration, teamwork, and continuously achieving solid business results.

HC team members unite around a common cause of resident care and community support. This culture brings our team together and ensures everyone is working toward the same goal.

A team that works together with a collective goal to improve our residents care experience creates an internal culture of collaboration and mutual success. HC is passionate about making a positive, lasting impact on our residents and visitors, and so are our team members. 

Wage Range: $20.00-$24.00 Depending on Experience 

BENEFITS

Full Time (32 hours per week)

• 403(b) with Employer Match
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Free Parking
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Referral Bonus Program
• Reduced Fare Bus Pass

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides supportive services to nurse(s), RCC, Executive Director, and caregivers as needed/requested and performs duties as assigned.
• Assist nurse with oversite of the insulin delegation schedule.  
• Assist nurse with the monthly weights and vitals clinic as needed. 
• Assists other med techs with medication administration and processing of paperwork and orders daily to ensure completion and quality.
• Assist RCC’s with Medication Room audits as requested. 
• Assist nurse and RCC’s to ensure all Incident reports are completed correctly and provide continued training on filling out incident reports to the med techs. 
• Oversite of Cycle Fill from all pharmacies. Ensure cycle review is completed on time and faxed back to the pharmacy by the deadline, each month.
• Provide support for other med techs when they are completing their cycle review. 
• Oversees the organization and cleanliness of the medication room in addition to ensuring that all medications are placed in the proper location and stored correctly.
• Ensures daily temperature log for the medication refrigerator is kept up to date by the med techs 
• Counting short fills, completing short fill paperwork and reviewing with RCF Director for approval prior to ordering. 
• Run the missed medication report at the end of each shift to ensure all medications have been signed out by all med techs on duty after they’ve been administered. 
• Train all newly hired med tech’s and provide feedback to applicable managers about the progress of training and any concerns you observe during training.
• Continues ongoing training with all med techs as needed and/or requested by facility nurse. 
• Preform and document a narcotic audit of 1 medication cart per week as assigned by the facility nurse.  
• Responsible for alerting the nurse and/or RCC of any missing incident reports or other documentation. 
• Assists the nurse with assigned IP (infection prevention) duties, such as setting up PPE carts, stocking PPE, and placing residents on observation and/or isolation.
• Keeps nurse and supervisor informed of factors that interfere with being able to perform the work as assigned (i.e. resident refusals, request no medication from certain med techs).
• Report changes in a resident’s condition to the facility nurse and RCC.
• Responsible for regularly checking the schedule and reporting to shifts as assigned. Works with the Staffing Manager to coordinate scheduling changes and time off.
• Assist with on-call phone and assist staffing manager with finding required coverage. 
• Attends resident care conference meetings with the RCC, nurse and Administrator as requested. 
• Participates in care plan creation and updates as requested/needed.
• Ensure med techs are following the 24-hour process for all paperwork and physician’s orders and are following up on pending requests in the 24-hour binders. Support other med techs and keep this system flowing smoothly.  
• Assign additional tasks and distribute work to ensure equitable distribution of tasks for each med tech.
• Lead other med techs and assign tasks for organizing cycle fill when it arrives each month. 
• Regular and Predictable Attendance.

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