Clinical Transport Assistant

Lexington Medical Center; Lexington (SC); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Lexington Health is seeking a patient care assistant to support the clinical team across imaging, nursing, and physician staff. You will greet patients, handle oxygen tanks, and assist in preparing patients for exams in a fast-paced hospital environment.

Responsibilities include transporting patients between clinical areas, ensuring proper patient identification, moving supplies, and contributing to quality patient care.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• CPR certification required (must obtain within first 90 days).

Responsibilities

• Assist the clinical team (imaging technologists, nurses, physicians) with daily department activities.
• Greets patients and family members and helps prepare patients for exams.
• Transport patients to/from exam rooms and other clinical areas.
• Transport supplies and equipment as needed and return items to proper locations.
• Operate and understand basic hospital systems to support staff.

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Job description

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Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bedteachinghospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcareand was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metroarea by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Healthdelivers more than 4,000babies each year, performs more than 34,000surgeries annually and isthe region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center.Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Job Summary

This role is responsible for assisting the clinical team: e.g. imaging technologists, nurses, and physicians with all daily activities of the department as described. These duties may include greeting patients and family members, handling of oxygen tanks, transporting monitored or unmonitored patients to/from all clinical areas and assisting in preparing patients for exams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Minimum Years of Experience: None
• Substitutable Education & Experience: None
• Required Certifications/Licensure: CPR certification (must get CPR certification within the first 90 days of employment
• Required Training: None

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates competence to assist in the care for the following patient population for services (bariatric, cardiac, stroke, orthopedic, etc.):
  • Infant(Birth to 1 year)
  • Child(1 year through 12 years)
  • Adolescent (13 years through 17 years)
  • Adult (18 years to 65 years)
  • Geriatric (over 65 years)
• Properly identifies all patients for procedures and safely transports or assists them to the appropriate exam room. Completes the Fill out Ticket to Ride for each patient before transporting.
• Transports supplies, equipment and instruments for the department. Returns and or deliver items (O2 tanks, O2 holders etc.) to appropriate areas or personnel.
• Performs related duties such as basic knowledge and skill related to all department specific areas or modalities in order to assist the clinical staff.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Adheres to universal precaution techniques in performance of daily activities.
• Has the ability to utilize hospital EPIC computer system.
• Understands and helps in satisfying customer needs. Customers include patients and their families, guests, medical staff, and co-workers who represent developmentally, socioeconomic and culturally diverse groups. Responds positively to change and shows a willingness to learn new ways to accomplish work.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by authorized personnel or as required in an emergency; i.e. fire or disaster.

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our benefit eligible employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Student loan forgiveness

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee’s desires and abilities and the hospital’s needs.