Transporter-Part Time Evenings

About the Role

At Northwestern Medicine, every patient interaction makes a difference in cultivating a positive workplace. This patient-first approach sets us apart as a leader in the healthcare industry. As an integral part of our team, you'll join our quest for better healthcare at Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb.

Responsibilities

• Completes patient transports within set departmental standards.
• Performs duties in the Equipment Processing Distribution Department, including picking up soiled equipment, cleaning equipment per standards, and delivering equipment to user areas.
• Ensures all equipment is functional, in good working order, and has current Clinical Engineering (CE) tags; delivers non-functional equipment to the CE department.
• Ensures equipment requiring battery charging is charged during storage.
• Advises Patient Care Services when transporting patients from the unit and for all discharges.
• Performs accurate and timely documentation of patient movements when leaving and returning patients to units.
• Notifies the responsible nurse prior to any transports; obtains Ticket to Ride and transports with the patient.
• Ensures all assigned equipment is kept clean and well maintained.
• Transports patients or guests safely using appropriate equipment, lift techniques, and departmental safety measures.
• Cleans and sanitizes all equipment used in patient transport; adheres to PPE policies and infection control guidelines.
• Provides an overview of the patient room to the patient and/or family upon admission, including explanations of room contents, bed controls, and room service.
• Assists patient care areas with lifts requiring two or more people; utilizes hospital lift devices, including maxi slides.
• Monitors and delivers transport equipment such as wheelchairs to entrances and nursing units to maintain PAR levels.
• Responds to code procedures as determined by hospital location.
• Assists in the Cadence Health Fall Prevention initiative by ensuring proper patient positioning, bed rails, accessibility of items, and reconnecting bed alarms.
• Communicates effectively with the call center dispatch regarding transport delays or cancellations; reports transport completion immediately.
• May assist with removing trash and linen from patient rooms upon discharge.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• CPR – Basic Life Support certification within 90 days of hire.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical, emotional, and financial well-being while providing protection for unexpected life events. Benefits include:

• Tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness.
• 401(k) matching.
• Lifecycle benefits.

Pay

Sign-on bonus eligibility may apply (internal employees and rehires who left Northwestern Medicine within one year are not eligible, with exceptions for new graduate internal employees).

Schedule

• Part-time: 40 hours every two weeks.
• Shift: Evenings with rotating weekends and holidays.

Northwestern Medicine conducts a background check, including criminal history, for newly hired team members and internal transfers, following all local, state, and federal laws, including the Illinois Health Care Worker Background Check Act.