Patient Transfer & Lift Technician

West Tennessee Healthcare; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

West Tennessee Healthcare in Jackson, Tennessee, is seeking a patient lift and transfer assistant to support safe handling of patients in clinical and ancillary areas. You will collaborate with nurses and providers to move and reposition patients, ensuring comfort and safety while maintaining infection control standards.

Requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, CPR certification, and at least 1 year of clinical experience.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Current CPR certification (If not certified, must have certification within first 90 days of employment).
• At least one year of experience in a clinical setting or clinical studies is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assisting nurses and other health care providers with patient transfers as requested such as bed to chair/chair to bed; bed to stretcher/stretcher to bed; stretcher to X-ray table/X-ray table to stretcher.
• Perform turns every two hours.
• Assisting in patient repositioning as requested by health care providers.
• Responsibility for any total body lift transfers needed inpatient care; the patient is unable to assist with the transfer.
• Responsibility for any high-risk transfers needed inpatient care; i.e., the patient is over 200 pounds, unable to assist with the transfer or lift.
• Compliance with specific policies and procedures for safety and infection control.
• Safe partnering with other health care providers to perform complex patient lifts/transfers, i.e.
• handling of multiple patient support lines, ventilators, traction devices, etc.
• Utilizing effective and appropriate communication and interpersonal skills.
• Performs related responsibilities as required or directed.

Skills

Lifting patients

Patient transfers

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

CPR certification

Job description

West Tennessee Healthcare in Jackson, Tennessee, is seeking a patient lift and transfer assistant to support safe handling of patients in clinical and ancillary areas. You will collaborate with nurses and providers to move and reposition patients, ensuring comfort and safety while maintaining infection control standards.

Requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, CPR certification, and at least 1 year of clinical experience.