Patient Transport

Beth Israel Lahey Health; Winchester (MA); On-site; USD 23,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health seeks volunteers to support Winchester Hospital's transport team. You will assist in moving patients and equipment, coordinate with clinical staff, and help ensure safe, efficient patient throughput while maintaining dignity and comfort.

This role requires basic health system awareness, a High School diploma (preferred) and BLS certification (required). The hospital emphasizes vaccination and safety in a high-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Preferred: High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Required: BLS certification.

Responsibilities

• Rounds the hospital to assess transport inventory and moves equipment to optimize operations.
• Greets and informs patient of move process and ensures safety checks are completed.
• Moves furniture to accommodate stretcher or wheelchair transport.
• Involves clinical staff in transferring patient from bed to stretcher or wheelchair.
• Pushes patient and chart to departments, conveying empathy while maintaining dignity.
• Notifies receiving department on arrival and completes hand-off with patient present.
• Transports patients on discharge and assists into vehicle with a friendly greeting.
• Prioritizes transport requests to minimize wait times and coordinate with departments.
• Responds to pages for medical codes and replenishes code carts as needed.

Skills

Patient transport

Safety checks

Empathy

Communication

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

BLS

Job description

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Job Description

Winchester Hospital is a 5x Magnet designated, Top 10 Massachusetts recognized 223-bed regional hospital that is the leading provider of comprehensive health care services in the northwest suburban Boston area.

As Part Of The Volunteer Department Team, This Position

• Rounds the hospital to assess transport inventory and moves equipment to optimize operations and to maximize patient throughput.
• Greets and informs patient of move process and identifies patient making the patient feel informed and comforted, fulfilling all safety and quality checks and procedures.
• Moves furniture around to accommodate the stretcher and/or wheelchair.
• Involves clinical staff in transferring patient from the bed to the stretcher or wheelchair.
• Pushes patient and the patient's medical chart to the various departments within the hospital conveying empathy and reassurance while caring for the patient's dignity, comfort and safety.
• Notifies the receiving department upon arrival and conducts a thorough hand off. Returns to the patient and explains the next steps. Stays with the patient if additional comfort or supervision is appropriate.
• Transports select patients upon discharge, waiting for their transportation, and assisting them into their vehicle if necessary, ending the patient’s stay with a friendly note.
• Prioritizes multiple transport requests to optimize patient throughput, reducing wait times to improve patient and family members’ satisfaction. Communicates with the requesting departments to collaborate on resolving transport conflicts.
• Listens for pages regarding medical codes and retrieves a fresh code cart to replenish the involved department’s ensuring the department has access to this emergent tool. Moves code carts to multiple departments to appropriately replenish the carts’ supplies.
• Moves patient care equipment and other materials. Delivers items throughout the hospital, as needed, including but not limited to laboratory specimens and pharmacy supplies.
• Responds to equipment issues in a timely manner to ensure availability of equipment and to maximize its useful life.

Education

Preferred: High School Diploma or equivalent

Required: BLS

Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is an integrated health system dedicated to creating healthier communities - one person at a time - through seamless care and ground-breaking science, driven by excellence, innovation and equity.

Founded in 2019, our system brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, primary and specialty care, behavioral health and home care services, and more than 5,900 physicians and 36,000 employees to care for more than 1.7 million patients in communities across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.

Pay Range

$17.00 - $22.88

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled