SEIU Transport Asst-3

Job Location: 601 Elmwood Ave, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 14642. Opening Worker Subtype: Regular. Time Type: Full time. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 37.5. Department: 500110 Transportation Center SMH. Work Shift: UR - Rotating (United States of America).

Responsibilities

• Exercising courtesy, sound judgment and initiative with patients and staff, escorts and transports patients to and from various clinical services and patient units.
• Delivers specimens and equipment; performs cleaning of equipment as directed.
• Sends and delivers carts on supply transport system and other related support duties.
• Under the direct supervision of Supervisor, Transportation Center; may be assigned to any area within the department for periods of time and receives direct assignments and instruction from the supervisor of assigned area.
• Assists in the instruction and training of new Transport Assistants.
• Uses wheelchairs, beds, stretchers, carts, supply transport system, and any equipment stocked in the Equipment Center.
• As instructed by designated authority or Dispatcher, escorts and/or transports new admissions, in‑ and outpatients between patient units, x‑ray, outpatient departments, Emergency Department, Operating Rooms, Ambulatory Surgical Center and the various clinical services.
• Assists nursing staff in restraining disturbed patients, handling unusually heavy patients and the like; transports deceased patients.
• Picks up and delivers on a prescheduled or dispatched basis, a variety of items such as specimens, patient records, requisitions, patient mail, pharmaceuticals, etc.
• Delivers supplies and equipment from the Equipment Center; transports and sets up equipment such as: overhead frame and trapeze and footboard.
• Distributes meals and snacks to patients under direction of nurse, makes beds and helps with stocking of shelves with linen and other supplies.
• Perform duties as clothing room clerk.

Qualifications

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

Pay

Compensation Range: $18.75 - $25.44 (the referenced pay range represents the first and last step pay rates for this job, as set forth in the applicable collective bargaining agreement; individual pay will be set in accordance with terms of the applicable collective bargaining agreement).

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 37.5. Work Shift: UR - Rotating.