Top 10 Paths to Start Your Career in Healthcare

Learn more about how Intermountain can help you learn and grow in your career with free to low-cost education opportunities for one of these roles.

Medical Assistant (MA): $18.55/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • Current Basic Life Support Certifications (BLS) for healthcare providers
  • Satisfactory complete applicable competency assessments/skill checklist within 90 days of hire/transfer into MA job.

Job Responsibilities

  • Provides immunizations to patients, takes vitals, rooms on patients, clinical/clerical duties
  • Prepares patients for physicians visit, preforms tests and files appropriate documents.

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Surgical Tech/OR Tech: $22.46/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • Completion of certified surgical technology program

Job Responsibilities

  • Takes responsibility for instruments and equipment during procedure
  • Assists surgeon in passing instruments and closing incision.

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Patient Care Tech (CNA): $17.00/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • CNA Certification
  • CPR card for healthcare providers

Job Responsibilities

  • Assists RN with patient care (changes linens, bathes patients, monitors vital signs)
  • Transports patients
  • Documents care, assists with record-keeping

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Phlebotomist: $17.50/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent

Job Responsibilities

  • Collects blood samples for analysis
  • Labels samples properly
  • Picks up and delivers specimens

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Housekeeping (Environmental Services): $16.50/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • Effective communication skills
  • Available for all shifts

Job Responsibilities

  • General housekeeping tasks
  • Keeps a safe and clean environment within clinics and hospitals

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Nutrition Services: $16.00/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • Effective communication skills
  • Food Handler’s Permit

Job Responsibilities

  • Prepares food, washes dishes and cleans areas

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Orderly: $16.00/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • CPR Certification

Job Responsibilities

  • Transports patients
  • Organizes equipment and general cleaning

Patient Service Representative (PSR): $17.00/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • Six months of customer service experience
  • Demonstrated basic computer skills involving word processing and data entry

Job Responsibilities

  • Coordinates patient/clinic, including scheduling appointments, patient registration, cashiering functions and answering phones.

Central Processing: $18.02/hour + based on experience

Minimum Requirements

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • Ability to identify instruments and supplies from memory

Job Responsibilities

  • Sterilizes, assembles and distributes equipment

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