Certified Nursing Assistant FT

NYU LANGONE HOSPITAL-LONG ISLAND is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center, which offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. We are a major regional healthcare resource with a deep commitment to medical education and research, offering a full complement of inpatient and outpatient services.

POSITION SUMMARY : We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Visitor Screener - Part Time, Benefits Eligible - Mineola. In this role, the successful candidate The Visitor Screener welcomes and screens all visitors, vendors, patients, and employees entering the hospital using excellent communication skills. The Visitor Screener operates independently and is responsible for access control into the hospital by ensuring visitor and employee-screening policies are enforced.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Responsible for access control into the hospital by ensuring all patients, visitors, vendors, and employees are properly screened as per hospital guidelines and policies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of NYULH current guidelines and polices related to visitor, patient, vendor, employee screening.
• Ensure visitor and employee screening polies are enforced by asking appropriate health screening questions.
• Properly takes the temperature of patients, visitors, vendors, and employees.
• Triage and escalate clinical concerns if patient fails screening to appropriate clinical departments.
• Collaborate and interact with the interdisciplinary team members & departments to support the needs of visitors, patients, vendors, and employees (i.e. collaborate with Security team for visitor / patient transport to Emergency Department, etc.)
• Ability to independently interact with visitors, vendors, patients, and employees entering the hospital in a prompt, respectful, and helpful manner through excellent communication skills.
• Assists with instruction / education of proper personal protective equipment (PPE) use, and provides masks to those entering facility without proper PPE.
• Maintains strict confidentiality related work information (in accordance with HIPPA)
• Functions as a respectful member of the health care team.
• Cooperates and interacts with the interdisciplinary team members to escalate clinical questions and concerns of patients, visitors, vendors, and employees.
• Assists with escorting patients to their appointment / procedure if necessary
• Have the ability to efficiently and effectively respond to information request and ability to multi-task.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS : To qualify you must have a Bachelor Degree and 2 years of customer service experience especially as it relates to clear, empathic communication, and the ability to quickly & effectively triage escalations. Attention to detail, organization, and ability to navigate potentially stressful situations. Must be self-motivated and able to operate independently.

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization. NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents. NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender dysphoria, national origin, age, religion, disability, military and veteran status, marital or parental status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We require applications to be completed online. If you wish to view NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island's EEO policies, please click here. Please click here to view the Federal "EEO is the law" poster or visit for more information. To view the Pay Transparency Notice, please click here.

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