Job Title: Patient Care Technician - Central Region Float Pool - No CNA Cert Required - Day/Night Rotation
Location: Danville, Pennsylvania
Job Category: Nursing Support Services, Nursing and Nursing Support
Schedule: Rotation
Work Type: Full time
Department: Talent Management Nursing & Nursing Support Team
Date Posted: 08/29/2025
Job ID: R-78618
Job SummaryGeisinger is proud to offer a Patient Care Technician a $18.94 minimum hiring rate with increased rates for experienced individuals! Up to $3 shift differentials for evening, nights, and weekend shifts and up to $4 in float premiums! Also offering up to $40,000 in financial support to become a nurse!
Job Duties
ACE Nursing Model of Care: Achieving Collaborative Excellence
Geisinger is excited to be piloting a new model of care on our Advanced Acute Care Units at our Danville, Bloomsburg, and Shamokin campuses. The ACE Nursing Model of Care will utilize more Patient Care Technician staff to take responsibility for and perform the duties that do not require a nursing license, freeing the licensed nurse to perform the advanced skills that align with nursing education and training. This new model of care will allow Patient Care Technicians more opportunity for career advancement, autonomy in their role, and greater involvement in the delivery of patient care.
Primary duties include:
- Primary facilitator of ADLs: hygiene, toileting, mobility, meals
- Vital signs
- Point of Care testing
- Turning & repositioning
- Daily weights
- Equipment checks & exchanges
Additional training provided on advanced patient care skills including:
- Advanced dressing care
- Suctioning
- Removal of Foley Catheter
- Peripheral IV
- Venipunctures and skin punctures to obtain blood specimens
Join the Geisinger Family! Apply now! To learn more about this new opportunity, please contact Jennifer Craven ( ) or Allison Honabach ( ).
Benefits of working at Geisinger:
- Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one
- Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents
- Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings