Patient Services Transporter 1
Patient Services Transporter 1
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Job Description
Description
Summary:
The patient transporter brings patients to and from their designated testing centers delivers equipment to the nursing floors and removes/delivers blood products or sterile supplies.
Responsibilities:
1. Transports designated inpatients and outpatients.
2. Assists in maintaining a safe and orderly work environment.
3. Participates in setting and attaining department goals.
4. Maintains confidentiality of all aspects of patients and their families at all times.
5. Utilizes communication skills effectively with patients families visitors medical staff and hospital personnel.
6. Keeps current regarding job related duties through required inservice education and staff meetings.
7. Formulates and uses effective working relationships with all health care staff patients & significant others.
8. Assertively seeks guidance and direction as needed.
9. Provides coverage for Code 99s.
10. Serves as dispatcher as needed.
11. Applies basic trapeze set ups and retrieves equipment for other traction sets.
12. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
13. Performs other duties as assigned.
Education: HS GRAD/EQUIVALENT
Other Information:
High School Diploma or GED required.
Required: Must understand and speak conversational English and possess listening and comprehension skills. Must be able to work with young elderly sick and physically challenged people.
Desired: Bilingual desired.
Working Conditions:
Manual: significant manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity
Occupational: Significant occupational risk
Physical Effort: Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force
Physical Environment: Significant exposure to dirt odors noise human waste etc.
Company: Norwalk Hospital Association
Org Unit: 1631
Department: Patient Transport
Exempt: No
Salary Range: $16.50 $24.18 Hourly
Employment Type
Full Time
