Compassionate Patient Transport Specialist

Putnam Hospital Center; Town of Carmel (NY); On-site; USD 24,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Putnam Hospital Center is seeking a Transport/Messenger to assist with moving patients between units, to testing areas, and at discharge. The role also involves transporting specimens and essential items, including wheelchairs and blood products from the blood bank.

Responsibilities include following departmental procedures, working with the health care team, handling confidential information per HIPAA, and performing safety-focused patient transport duties across hospital settings.

Qualifications

• High School graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Basic Life Support
• Physical ability to move patients and equipment

Responsibilities

• 1. Employee complies departmental procedures and requirements as evidenced by employee’s knowledge of and attendance at (i) department and hospital orientation programs, (ii) annual mandatory education (iii) participation in periodic drills and (iv) staff meetings.
• 2. Works effectively with members of the health care team, administrative personnel and maintains a cooperative working relationship intra-departmentally and inter-departrmentally.
• 3. Practices effective telephone skills/etiquette by answering within 3 rings whenever possible, consistently identifies department and self and picking up voicemails.
• 4. Safeguards the confidential information of the organization, including contractual information, payroll, and other business-related functions, as well as safeguarding Protected Health Information according to HIPAA and other state related laws. While treating each personal encounter with discretion and sensitivity and assures that all confidential information remains private
• 5. Assist with movement of patients from one unit to another or to a testing area and back. This includes transferring patients in and out of bed, from wheelchair/stretcher to chair, from wheelchair to patients’ vehicle at discharge.
• 6. Perform 1:1 observation on non-suicidal/non-violent patients as assigned by the nursing staff and document as per policy.
• 7. Transports supplies, equipment, correspondence, and other items, i.e., may retrieve bedside scale/hoyer lift,deliver pharmacy orders, etc.
• 8. Follows NYS Department of Corrections (DOC) guidelines when working with DOC patients
• 9. Use of safety behaviors such as using two patient identifiers before offering service to the patient, making sure bed or stretcher is in its lowest position and locked at all times before leaving a patient, ensuring hallways are free from clutter.
• 10. Identifies and provides input on opportunities for improvement and prevention of errors through the performance improvement process and patient safety program.
• 11. Appropriately and pro-actively addresses questions and concerns regarding corporate compliance and related issues to supervisor or corporate compliance, attends appropriate compliance training and knows the rules and regulations that apply to their job.
• 12. Demonstrates the ability to initiate complaint resolution and create an environment that makes it easy for customers to express concern.
• 13. Employee is familiar with and adheres to all Putnam hospital policy
• 14. Employee is familiar with and adheres to hospital infection control policies and procedures as evidenced by his/her attendance at (1) department and hospital wide orientation programs, (2) mandatory education sessions and (3) department specific infection control lectures/film presentation. (4) Hand washing
• 15. Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Basic Life Support

Education

High School graduate or equivalent preferred.

Basic Life Support

Physical ability to move patients and equipment

Job description

Putnam Hospital Center is seeking a Transport/Messenger to assist with moving patients between units, to testing areas, and at discharge. The role also involves transporting specimens and essential items, including wheelchairs and blood products from the blood bank.

Responsibilities include following departmental procedures, working with the health care team, handling confidential information per HIPAA, and performing safety-focused patient transport duties across hospital settings.