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San Juan Regional Medical Center
Farmington, New Mexico, United States

Behavioral Health Patient Care Tech PRN

Healthcare SupportPer Diem

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Job Description

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The Patient Care Tech (PCT) is an integral part of a patient-focused team who use their knowledge, skills, and energy to carry out the sacred task of helping others. They serve as the communication hub for the patient care environment and are responsible for creating and maintaining a care environment conducive to healing.

Required Behaviors

As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED

  • Nursing assistant experience or certification; if no nursing assistant experience or certification, completion of nursing assistant or patient care tech program
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification within two (2) weeks of hire
  • Legible printing
  • Clear speaking voice
  • Typing/computer skills
  • Mature, courteous deportment
  • Driver’s license free of violation for SJRIR

Preferred Qualifications

  • Medical terminology required prior to unit orientation or documentation of formal class within three (3) years
  • Previous experience
  • Multi-language ability

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Demonstrates commitment to professional growth and development for self and others
  • Collaborates with all team members to provide skillful, supportive care for all patients
  • Communicates pertinent information to members of the patient care team
  • Supports and participates in performance improvement activities

Provides Quality Internal and External Customer Service

Possesses communication skills strong enough to participate with the team, manage conflict, and work successfully with the public

Has ability to perform accurately and quickly in a busy, stressful environment, setting priorities as to duties

  • Deals with the emotional stress of caring for dying and chronically ill patients
  • Performs other duties as assigned
  • Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions

  • Meets OSHA training requirements
  • Potential exposure to blood and bodily fluids
  • Intermittent or prolonged standing, walking, and sitting
  • Effectively copes and strives for balance when caring for acutely ill patients and families
  • Accepts the risk of job-related illness and injury which may cause long-term health problems

Repetitive motions (i. e., wrist/hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity as in typing, writing, faxing, filing papers, etc.)

Able to lift greater than fifty (50) pounds and push up to three hundred (300) pounds using approved hospital transport devices

Key Responsibilities

The Patient Care Tech serves as a communication hub and provides supportive, skillful care to patients in a healing environment. They are responsible for collaborating with the care team, managing conflict, and performing duties accurately in a fast-paced setting.

Requirements

Candidates must have a high school diploma or GED and nursing assistant experience or certification. A Basic Life Support (BLS) certification is required within two weeks of hire, along with strong communication and computer skills.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Conflict managementPrioritizationStress management

Healthcare Support Career Context

The cost-of-living index for New Mexico is 92.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.4% of New Mexico clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Healthcare Support pay on WeekdayDoc is down 19.9% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

What does the Healthcare Support market look like in New Mexico?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedHealthcare Support median $93k (middle half $66k–$115k)31 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingNew Mexico index 92.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
All healthcare support listings in New Mexico16 active2,024 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Healthcare Support pay trend (all specialties)−19.9% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. New Mexico figures use all healthcare supports: too few New Mexico Healthcare Support postings state pay.

Work-life snapshot

1.5/ 10
Listing-based score

Living in Farmington

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$296k
Typical market rent
$1,535/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
87.7
State income tax
Up to 5.9%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Farmington, NM metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.