Patient & Equipment Transporter, University, 40 hours, Evenings

UMass Memorial Health; Worcester (MA); On-site; USD 26,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Signing bonus

Job summary

UMass Memorial Health is seeking a Patient Transporter to support the central transportation team in Worcester. You will move patients by wheelchair or bed, deliver supplies, and assist with safe handoffs between units.

Required: high school diploma, English literacy, and Basic Life Support (BLS) within 6 months. Strong customer service and interpersonal skills are essential; a signing bonus may be available during interview.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• BLS Certification within 6 months of hire.
• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
• Good interpersonal and customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Escort ambulatory patients and transport by wheelchair, stretcher or bed; verify patient IDs.
• Assist nursing staff with moving patients using lift devices; follow infection control.
• Deliver stretchers, beds, cribs, or wheelchairs as needed and clean transport equipment.
• Transport patient specimens and other items following infection control guidelines.
• Perform ancillary transport duties such as delivering medical records and supplies.

Skills

BLS Certification

English literacy

Customer service

Interpersonal skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Exemption Status:

Non-Exempt

Hiring Range:

$19.00 - $31.55

(based on a full time schedule of 40 hours per week).

Please note that the final offer will vary based on scheduled hours. Compensation for part-time or reduced schedules will be prorated based on scheduled weekly hours, experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Holidays - Every Other Holiday, Weekends - Every Other Weekend

Scheduled Hours:

1430-2300

Shift:

2 - Evening Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Cost Center:

10020 - 0175 Central Patient Transportation

Union:

UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers)

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

I. Major Responsibilities:

• 1. Escorts ambulatory patients. Transports patient by wheelchair, stretcher or bed. Prior to transport, verifies identification of all patients assigned by checking 2 identifiers and signing off on Safe Patient Transport Forms; notifies clinician if discrepancy on forms. To ensure patient comfort and safety during transport process, monitors and responds to basic patient needs before, during and after transport. Provides appropriate handoff communication when patient is delivered to receiving unit.
• 2. Assists nursing staff and/or lift tech in moving and positioning of patients using various lift devices in preparation of patient for transport and returning patient to bed. Includes lateral transfer of patients on precaution status that requires Patient Transporter to use personal protection equipment and to follow infection control process per precaution isolation-type.
• 3. Delivers stretchers, beds, cribs and wheelchairs as needed. Assists in deep-cleaning of all transport equipment on a biannual basis. Sanitizes transport vehicles and ancillary equipment between patient use.
• 4. Transports patient specimens to and from the Lab, Pathology, and blood products to/from the Blood Bank in accordance with established infection control guidelines. Transports contaminated equipment to Sterile Processing within same infection control guidelines.
• 5. Delivers other materials such as medical records, pharmaceuticals, X-ray films, sterile items, and miscellaneous reports and items as required.

II. Position Qualifications:

License/Certification/Education:

Required:

• 1. High school diploma or equivalent.

Experience/Skills:

Required:

• 1. Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification within 6 months of hire.
• 2. Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
• 3. Good inter-personal skills and a customer service orientation to maintain a collaborative, patient focused effort between Patient Transportation and other hospital departments.

Preferred:

• 1. Six months' experience in a hospital environment.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [e-mail]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.