Transportation Driver

About the role

This role supports resident mobility by assisting with vehicle loading and unloading, ensuring safe transport to appointments and activities, maintaining vehicle condition, and overseeing maintenance schedules.

Responsibilities

• Assist residents with loading and unloading from facility‑approved vehicles.
• Ensure safe transportation of residents to scheduled medical appointments or other approved activities and resident outings.
• Maintain the interior and exterior of facility vehicles to promote safe, comfortable transport and project a positive community image.
• Monitor vehicle maintenance logs and deliver vehicles for regularly scheduled maintenance (e.g., oil changes, tire rotations).
• Remain flexible with work time to accommodate resident appointments or activities that run late.
• Demonstrate safe clinical‑based transfer techniques for ingress/egress of mobile patients, van transfer of patients into and out of wheelchairs, and proper securing of wheelchair‑bound residents in van bays.
• Lift, transfer, and mobilize patient weights of up to 70 pounds by self in confined areas inside the van.
• Make complex decisions involving a highly dependent patient base.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum age of 25 years.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Familiarity with GPS and the local driving area.
• No traffic crimes in the last 7 years (including DUI, DWS, reckless driving, traffic felonies, multiple DUIs/DWS, leaving the scene with injuries, assault with a vehicle).
• Not more than two moving violations in the past 3 years.
• Not more than one accident in the past 3 years.
• Ability to pass a drug screen and background check.
• High school diploma or GED.