Transport/Van Driver

Safety Factors

• Risk Potential to Blood/Body Fluids: Category I

Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities

• Transports residents to and from appointments in a safe and courteous manner.
• Works with the severely handicapped and the elderly, managing an 'on-demand' schedule.
• Be physically able to handle and assist the handicapped resident in wheelchairs.
• Assists disabled passengers into and out of vehicle.
• Secures passengers' wheelchairs to restraining devices to stabilize wheelchairs during trip.
• Assists all other departments in deliveries and pick-up and delivery of other related work items.
• Communicates with supervisor upon disruption of service.
• Cleans and services vehicle with fuel, lubricants, and accessories.
• Supports medical records department in deliveries and pick-up of medical records and physician orders.
• Follows established safety precautions in the performance of all duties.
• Reports all vehicle repairs, and/or any unsafe or hazardous situations immediately to your supervisor.
• Be flexible and available for special occasions, and special schedules.
• Ability to do other duties as assigned by your supervisor.

Personal Functions

• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
• Cooperate with inter-department personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that nursing services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
• Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals to your supervisor.

Safety and Sanitation

• Immediately notify the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse of any resident leaving/missing from the facility.
• Follow established safety precautions in the performance of all duties.
• Report all hazardous conditions and equipment to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse immediately.
• Follow established smoking regulations.
• Report any communicable or infectious disease to the Director of Nursing and/or to the Infection Control Coordinator.
• Follow established isolation precautions and procedures.
• Wash hands before entering and after leaving an isolation room/area.
• Follow established procedures in the use and disposal of personal protective equipment.
• Wear and /or use safety equipment and supplies (e.g. back brace, mechanical lifts, etc.) when lifting or moving residents.
• Report missing/illegible labels and MSDSs to your supervisor.

Equipment And Supply Functions

• Use only the equipment you have been trained to use.
• Operate all equipment in a safe manner.
• Report defective equipment in a safe manner.
• Report defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
• Inform the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse of your equipment and supply needs.

Resident Rights

• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information.
• Treat all residents fairly, and with kindness, dignity, and respect.
• Ensure that all nursing care is provided in privacy.
• Report all grievances and complaints made by the resident to the Nurse Supervisor/Chare Nurse.
• Report all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property.
• Honor the resident’s refusal of treatment request. Report such requests to your supervisor.

Working Conditions

• Moves intermittently during working hours.
• Subject to frequent interruptions.
• Involved with residents, personnel, visitors, government agencies/personnel, etc., under all condition and circumstances.
• Subject to hostile and emotionally upset residents, family members, personnel, and visitors.
• Communicates with nursing personnel and other department personnel.
• Works beyond normal working hours, on weekends and holidays, and in other positions temporarily, when necessary.
• Subject to callback during emergency conditions (e.g., severe weather, evacuation, post-disaster, etc.).
• Attends and participates in continuing educational programs.
• Subject to injury from falls, burns from equipment, odors, etc., throughout the workday, as well as to reactions from dust, disinfectants, tobacco smoke, and other air contaminants.
• Subject to exposure to infectious waste, diseases, conditions, etc., including TB and the AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses.
• May be subject to the handling of and exposure to hazardous chemicals.

Physical And Sensory Requirements (With or Without the Aid of Mechanical Devices)

• Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
• Must be able to speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.
• Must be able to cope wit the mental and emotional stress of the position.
• Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.
• Must function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies.
• Must meet the general health requirements set forth by the policies of this facility, which include a medical and physical examination.
• Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and at times, hostile people within the facility.
• Must be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of twenty-five pounds.
• May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.