Transport Asst

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.
• Delivers specimens and equipment; performs cleaning of equipment as directed.
• Assists in the instruction and training of new Transport Assistants.
• Typical duties include escorting and transporting 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 trapezium 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.
• Performs cleaning of equipment as directed.
• Sends and delivers carts on supply transport system.
• 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

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

UR - Rotating (United States of America)

Benefits

N/A