Job Description

**Join Our Supportive Sitter Team!** Ready to make a difference in patient care? As a sitter in our hospital, you'll provide vital companionship and support to patients, ensuring their safety and comfort. Work alongside a dedicated team in a compassionate environment where your presence truly matters! If you're caring and eager to help, **apply today!**

A Sitter is an intervention utilized for patients who are presently in danger to themselves or to others.A Sitter provides observation that provides safety to certain types of patients in accordance with the patient's needs.

Responsibilities:

1. Maintains observation of patient according to patient needs.
2. May perform rounds/observations on units including but not limited to safety, quiet at night and comfort rounds.
3. Reports behavioral changes or verbalizations of self-harm/harm to others to nursing staff.
4. A nursing assistant in the role of a Sitter may provide patient care as outlined in the nursing assistant job description.

Shift:Various shifts, 8 or 12 hour shifts. Rotating days, weekends, and holidays required.

Hours per Week: Full Time 36-40 hours,Part Time 16-32 hours

Department:PRN Nursing Float

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Supplemental pay types:

• Differential pay
• Overtime pay

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Washington Health System

Job Tags

Holiday work, Full time, Part time, Relief, Flexible hours, Shift work, Night shift, Rotating shift,

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