Patient&Equipment Transporter (PD)

Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Hiring Range: $15.00 - $22.22. Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule

• Holidays: One Major Summer Holiday, One Major Winter Holiday
• On Call: Required
• Scheduled Hours: Varies
• Shift: 4 - Mixed Shift, 4.5 Hours

About the Role

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where you can build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other.

Performs a variety of duties involving the transportation of patients throughout the hospital. Assists nursing staff in the physical, lateral transfer of patients before and after patient transport. Collects and delivers items to and from areas including the Labs, Pharmacy, Radiology, Medical Records, S.P.D., Mail Room and patient care areas. Cleans, sanitizes and delivers beds and transport equipment; maintains job activity logs as required.

Responsibilities

• Escorts ambulatory patients.
• Transports patient by wheelchair, stretcher or bed.
• Prior to transport, verifies identification of all patients assigned by checking 2 identifiers and signing off on Safe Patient Transport Forms; notifies clinician if discrepancy on forms.
• Monitors and responds to basic patient needs before, during and after transport to ensure patient comfort and safety.
• Provides appropriate handoff communication when patient is delivered to receiving unit.
• Assists nursing staff and/or lift tech in moving and positioning of patients using various lift devices in preparation of patient for transport and returning patient to bed, including lateral transfer of patients on precaution status that requires use of personal protection equipment and following infection control processes.
• Delivers stretchers, beds, cribs and wheelchairs as needed.
• Assists in deep-cleaning of all transport equipment on a biannual basis.
• Sanitizes transport vehicles and ancillary equipment between patient use.
• Transports patient specimens to and from the Lab, Pathology, and blood products to/from the Blood Bank in accordance with established infection control guidelines.
• Transports contaminated equipment to Sterile Processing within same infection control guidelines.
• Delivers medical records, pharmaceuticals, X-ray films, sterile items, and miscellaneous reports and items as required.
• Checks E-cylinders (portable O2 tanks) for content; distributes/exchanges E-cylinders throughout the hospital.
• Interacts with a web-based dispatch system (TDSS) via alpha paging for job assignment; maintains individual Transporter Trip Log and other statistical records as required.
• May participate in Emergency Department triage transport assignment during disaster situations including CODE HELP, assist in transport of trauma patients and transport of deceased victims to the morgue.
• Guides and assists patients through decontamination unit.
• May assume the role of a dispatcher if trained and as directed.
• Complies with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
• Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
• Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
• Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to a professional, tolerant, and civil environment for all employees, patients and visitors.
• Maintains regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
• Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
• Good interpersonal skills and a customer service orientation to maintain a collaborative, patient-focused effort between Patient Transportation and other hospital departments.

Qualifications

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification within 6 months of hire (preferred).
• Six months’ experience in a hospital environment (preferred).
• Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility may be substituted.

Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions

Work is considered sedentary. Position requires work indoors in a normal office environment.