PATIENT TRANSPORTER (PART TIME)

About the role

Located at UConn Health Waterbury Hospital, 64 Robbins Street, Waterbury, CT 06708. Make a difference in the lives of people, your community, and yourself. At Crothall Healthcare, a Compass Healthcare company, you’ll join a culture built on caring for people and creating a true sense of belonging. Our careers are filled with purpose and empower you to transform healthcare experiences while building lasting relationships. Crothall provides specialized, high-quality, innovative support services exclusively to the healthcare industry. As the market leader in Environmental Services (EVS), we support nearly 1,300 accounts, many of which are ranked among the nation’s top hospitals. With nearly 30,000 team members, we hold ourselves to high standards of detail, safety, and excellence. We empower and uplift each other by working together, take responsibility for doing the right thing, and believe there is no limit to our potential when we grow together across Environmental Services, Patient Transportation, Patient Observation, Facilities Management, Healthcare Technology Solutions, Ambulatory Services, and Sterile Processing. Patient Transporter Facilitating Internal Hospital Patient Moves: Responsible for the safe, timely and accurate transport of patients, medical equipment and patient‑related items to their destinations.

Responsibilities

• Properly and safely transports patients, secures IVs, drainage tubes, etc., and secures the patient.
• Uses wheelchairs and other approved rolling stock in accordance with patient transportation requirements.
• Demonstrates competency in transporting all specific age groups.
• Ensures the safe, timely and accurate transport of patients to their destination using the proper requested equipment.
• Communicates effectively with nursing personnel, clinicians, technicians, or reception and dispatch.
• Ensures patient comfort by being attentive, offering blankets, checking modesty, and engaging only in appropriate conversation; never transports patients in severe pain.
• Alerts nursing staff immediately to any signs of patient distress or equipment malfunction.
• Maintains equipment and reports equipment needing repairs.
• Complies with regulatory agency standards, including federal, state, and JCAHO.
• Adheres to facility confidentiality and patient’s rights policy as outlined in the facility’s HIPAA policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Prior customer service experience preferred.

Benefits

• Retirement Plan
• Associate Shopping Program
• Health and Wellness Programs
• Discount Marketplace
• Identify Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance (