Patient Services Transporter 1 Per Diem

About the role

Patient transporters bring patients to and from their designated testing centers, deliver equipment to nursing floors, and remove or deliver blood products or sterile supplies.

Responsibilities

• Transport designated in-patients and out-patients.
• Assist in maintaining a safe and orderly work environment.
• Participate in setting and attaining department goals.
• Maintain confidentiality of all aspects of patients and their families at all times.
• Utilize communication skills effectively with patients, families, visitors, medical staff, and hospital personnel.
• Keep current regarding job-related duties through required in-service education and staff meetings.
• Formulate and use effective working relationships with all healthcare staff, patients, and significant others.
• Assertively seek guidance and direction as needed.
• Provide coverage for Code 99's.
• Serve as dispatcher as needed.
• Apply basic trapeze set-ups and retrieve equipment for other traction sets.
• Fulfill all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Must understand and speak conversational English and possess listening and comprehension skills.
• Must be able to work with young, elderly, sick, and physically challenged people.
• Bilingual skills desired.

Working Conditions

• Manual: Significant manual skills, motor coordination, and finger dexterity.
• Occupational: Significant occupational risk.
• Physical Effort: Very heavy effort; may exert up to 50 lbs. of force.
• Physical Environment: Significant exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.

Pay

$17.00 - $24.91 hourly.