Mobility Tech I - Full Time - Variable Shifts and Schedules

Kaiser Permanente; Riverside (CA); Vor Ort; USD 43.000 - 47.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Kaiser Permanente in Riverside, California is seeking a Patient Mobility Tech-I to transport patients within the hospital and clinics, working with nursing staff and using lift equipment to minimize injury. This role supports operating room transfers and campus-wide deliveries of specimens and equipment.

Rotating weekends and up to 40 hours per week may be scheduled. Requires current Basic Life Support, knowledge of body mechanics, ability to lift with a team, and strong communication skills.

Qualifikationen

• Must maintain a current BCLS certification.
• Knowledge of basic body mechanics and patient lifting/transport.
• Ability to lift, push, pull, reposition, and transport patients daily.
• Ability to work with a trained partner using appropriate equipment.

Aufgaben

• Assist in safe lifting and transferring of high risk patients with a trained partner.
• Use proper lifting techniques and observe protocols.
• Utilize patient handling equipment and protective devices per policy.
• Maintain safety for patients and staff at all times.
• Communicate effectively with patients, co-workers, and physicians.
• Transport patients throughout the medical center complex.
• Assist with positioning, restraining, and draping patients as directed.
• Pick up and deliver specimens, equipment, and supplies on routes throughout the center.
• Assemble, disassemble, clean and store patient helper bars.
• Use the tracking system for related transport requests.
• Promote exceptional customer service and adhere to policies.
• Report non-compliance and follow Kaiser Permanente policies and regulations.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Kenntnisse

Basic Life Support

Body mechanics

Patient lifting/transport

Team lifting

Jobbeschreibung

An All-Inclusive Opportunity!

To optimize your experience applying to a job at Kaiser Permanente, we have created a unique and easy all-inclusive process to apply to opportunities in this specific specialty, relevant to your work experience and interests. These opportunities are for the hospital expansion tower opening in the Riverside Service Area.

An All-Inclusive Opportunity!

To optimize your experience applying to a job at Kaiser Permanente, we have created a unique and easy all-inclusive process to apply to opportunities in this specific specialty, relevant to your work experience and interests. These opportunities are for the hospital expansion tower opening in the Riverside Service Area.

This interest form has been created to source and attract external candidates for positions that will not be filled within the organization by internal employees.

If you are a current employee, please visit the employees careers website for a complete listing of available positions.

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Job Summary

Transports patients within the hospital and clinic area, including to and from the operating room. Works collaboratively with the nursing/patient care services staff to reposition and transfer patients. Uses patient care handling equipment when lifting and transferring patients to minimize injury risks. When lifting patients, the Patient Mobility Tech-I works with a second person who is trained in the proper use of lift techniques and equipment. Picks up and/or delivers laboratory specimens, blood products, wheel chairs, beds, mattresses, and equipment throughout the medical center complex.

Essential Responsibilities

• Works with a trained second person to provide assistance in the safe lifting and transferring of high risk patients (as identified through the patient mobilized risk screening process) and patients that have been identified as appropriate for this service. 2. Utilizes proper body mechanics, lifting techniques, and observes hospital and clinic protocols. 3. Utilizes patient handling equipment, transfer devices, and protective equipment in compliance with hospital/clinic policies, vendor specifications, and patient handling and transporting protocols. 4. Maintains patient and employee safety as a basic premise of all tasks performed. 5. Must have the ability to recognize the needs and concerns of members, co-workers, and physicians while maintaining positive working relationships. 6. Transports patients throughout the medical center complex. 7. Assists physicians and/or other hospital personnel in positioning, restraining, and draping patients with sheets as directed. 8. Picks up laboratory specimens, blood products, wheel chairs, equipment, reports, x-rays, and other supplies on regular routes or as required and delivers to appropriate location throughout the medical center complex to include; responding to special delivery requests from other departments, assisting with the lifting of medical patients, removal and delivery of beds and mattressess to nursing units. 9. Assembles, disassembles, cleans and stores of Trapeze/Patient Helper bars (excludes traction). 10. Utilizes computerized tracking system to receive work related calls for transport, lifting and/or related jobs. 11. Promotes, ensures, and improves customer service to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service. 12. , reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditations and licensure requirements (if applicable), and Kaiser Permanentes policies and procedures. 13. Performs other related duties as required

Experience

Basic Qualifications:

• Must maintain a current BCLS (American Heart Association Certification.
• Knowledge of basic body mechanics.
• Knowledge of related patient lifting or transport.
• Must be able to lift, push, pull and transfer, reposition and transport patients on a daily basis.
• Job requires ability to lift as part of a team, utilizing appropriate equipment for assistance. Job also requires frequent bending, stooping, lifting, stretching and standing for extended periods of time.
• While performing essential duties and responsibilities, incumbent must have the ability to physically work extensively with high risk patients (e.g. morbidly obese, quadriplegic, paraplegic, orthopedic, surgical and elderly) and specialty equipment utilized to mobilize these patients including transporting expired patients to the morgue.
• Must successfully complete Functional Capacity Test (includes ability to lift 90lbs) prior to final awarding of position.
• Must demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills. Must possess good interpersonal and organizational skills.

Education

• N/A

License, Certification, Registration

• Basic Life Support

Additional Requirements

• N/A

Preferred Qualifications

• An understanding of human anatomy, basic medical terminology, and rehabilitation principles is desired.
• Prior experience in rehabilitation service or healthcare setting is desired.

Notes

• Rotating weekends.
• May schedule up to 40 hours per week.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.

Job Duties

For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.
• Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.
• Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.

Primary Location: California,Riverside,Riverside Medical Center/Medical Offices 1

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0

Shift: Variable

Workdays: Variable

Working Hours Start: Variable

Working Hours End: Variable

Job Schedule: Full-time

Job Type: Standard

Worker Location: Onsite

Employee Status: Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B05|USW|Local 7600

Job Level: Entry Level

Department: Riverside Med Center - Patient Transportation - 0801

Pay Range: $31.05 - $34.25 / hour

Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

Travel: No

Work Setting: Onsite

Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.