Patient Transporter - PT Weekends

About the Role

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical, and business professionals across all disciplines.

This position is located at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, PA. The role involves greeting, guiding, and transporting in-patients within the hospital setting for all departments, as well as transporting equipment and supplies. Patient care includes pediatric (0 days through 12 years), adolescent (13 through 18 years), adult (19 through 64 years), and geriatric (65 years and above) age groups.

Responsibilities

• Performs patient transfer on and off appropriate transport equipment.
• Transports scheduled patients to all areas of the hospital.
• Retrieves and delivers equipment, patient transporting aids, and supplies.
• Completes cleaning tasks utilizing OSHA standards.
• Performs maintenance and/or inventory of equipment according to department standards.
• Monitors the condition of wheelchairs and litters and initiates repair through appropriate communication channels.
• Monitors and maintains transport system including computerized transport schedules.
• Demonstrates computer skills necessary to perform department-specific responsibilities.
• Depending on location, may need to reschedule patients and handle phone calls.
• Documents accurately and timely, according to department standards.
• Reports promptly unusual situations, reactions, effects, or conditions related to patient care to responsible personnel.
• Provides basic comfort, support, and safety needs of patients.
• Functions as a patient advocate by resolving patient/family concerns through appropriate actions.
• Demonstrates proper responses to emergency situations.
• Identifies learning needs and seeks available resources and opportunities.
• Completes assignments within designated shift.
• Responds promptly to requests for assistance.
• Respects patient rights and maintains strict confidentiality.
• Demonstrates concern and respect for others' thoughts and feelings and handles conflicts positively.
• Accepts accountability, as an individual and as a team member, for all services provided.
• Participates in on-call responsibilities for this position as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent GED.
• Completion of educational requirements including additional formal education/training; maximum supervision for initial competency; high degree of associated risk factors; yearly competency evaluation and training.
• CPR Certification required.
• Ability to continually prioritize work responsibilities.
• Ability to work independently and deliver accurate and efficient results.
• Demonstrates positive interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills when dealing with patients, family members, and staff.

Cognitive Requirements

Attention Concentration

The position requires the ability to attend to a specific stimulus without being distracted by extraneous environmental stimuli. The individual must be able to attend to environmental detail with the ability to separate essential from non-essential or irrelevant stimuli.

New Learning and Memory

Demands on memory and processing new information are essential and critical. The individual must have the ability to understand or carry out simple instructions. Requires a high level of aptitude to multitask and assimilate tasks and work responsibilities.

Problem Solving, Reasoning, and Creative Thinking

The position requires the ability to evaluate existing options to resolve a presenting problem and communicate with appropriate medical personnel. The resolutions or options are clearly defined, limited in number, and altered infrequently. Selection of the most appropriate solution is based on well-established and defined guidelines.

Temperaments

• Creativity, feelings, or ideas: Ability to adapt to situations involving the interpretation of feelings, ideas, or facts in terms of personal viewpoint; to use creativity, self-expression, or imagination.
• Influencing/Educating others: Ability to influence patients and family members in their opinions, attitudes, or judgments about ideas or things; to motivate and reinforce education regarding the patients’ healthcare.
• Repetitive work: Ability to continuously perform the same type of work for extended periods of time, according to set procedures, sequence, or pace.
• Working within tolerances, set limits, or standards: Ability to adapt to situations requiring precise attainment of set limits, tolerances, or standards; to be precise, thorough, exacting, or meticulous.
• Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations.
• Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Communication: Ability to exchange information with multiple disciplines clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts, and technical information.
• Planning and control: Ability to identify task requirements and monitor progress toward accomplishment.
• Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive to others.

Equipment Usage

• Equipment/Tools: Computer, Phone, Copier, Printer, Fax, Office Supplies, Oxygen tank, IV pumps, Suction bottles, Feeding pump, Portable suction, Mechanical lifting devices, Flashlight.
• Software: Microsoft Office Products, Clinical information system, Email, Scheduling system.

Physical Requirements

• Body Position Movement:
  • Sit: Occasionally (11-35%)
  • Stand: Continuously (71-100%)
  • Walk: Continuously (71-100%)
  • Bend: Occasionally (11-35%)
  • Push: Frequently (36-70%)
  • Pull: Frequently (36-70%)
  • Kneel/Squat: Occasionally (11-35%)
  • Reach: Frequently (36-70%)
  • Twist: Occasionally (11-35%)
  • Balance: Occasionally (11-35%)
  • Climb: Rarely (0-10%)
• Lifting: Heavy, exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Sensory Abilities: Vision and Hearing.

Working Conditions

Position involves exposure to the following harmful elements:

• Biohazardous Waste
• Bloodborne Pathogens

Schedule

Part-time (20 hours per week), 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM on Saturdays and Sundays.