SEIU Transport Asst.-1

Responsibilities

• Exercising courtesy, sound judgment and initiative with patients and staff, escorts and transports patients to and from various clinical services and patient units.
• Sends and delivers carts on supply transport system and other related support duties.
• Assists in the instruction and training of new Transport Assistants.
• Delivers specimens and equipment;
• Picks up and delivers on a prescheduled or dispatched basis, a variety of items such as specimens, patient records, requisitions, patient mail, pharmaceuticals, etc.
• Distributes meals and snacks to patients under direction of nurse, makes beds and helps with stocking of shelves with linen and other supplies.
• Performs cleaning of equipment as directed.
• Performs duties as clothing room clerk.

Qualifications

• Ability to read, write, and speak English.
• Ability to push, pull, and lift patients, supplies and equipment.

Supervision and Direction

• Receives direct assignments and instruction from the supervisor of assigned area.
• May be assigned to any area within the department for periods of time.