Patient Transport (Patient Services Associate)

Mclaren-Health-Care; Petoskey (MI); On-site; USD 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care in Michigan is seeking a full-time Transport Support member to move patients between clinical departments, ensuring safety and proper notification of receiving teams.

In this role you will assist with the hospital code response, clean and stock transport equipment, maintain nurse server inventory, and deliver telemetry devices as needed. A high school diploma or equivalent is required, and you will join a large, integrated health system.

Schedule: 7:00am–7:30pm; On Call: No.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Transports patients between clinical departments with proper notification of both the requesting and receiving departments while providing proper care to patients during transport. Cleans transport equipment between patients following hospital policy.
• Active member of the code response team (Code Blue, Code Trauma Activation, Code Massive Transfusion and Code Stroke) assisting with transportation of the patient and/or retrieval of life saving equipment, supplies and/or blood products.
• Cleans equipment for all discharges or discontinued therapies.
• Maintains nurse server inventory, reviews inventory usage with inventory planner, stocks linen in the rooms to meet customer needs.
• Completes daily check and restocking of supplies for code blue stretcher and code carts.
• Responsible for delivery and tracking of med/surg. units telemetry devices.
• Performs other duties consistent with purpose of job as directed.

Skills

Patient transport

Code response

Equipment handling

Inventory management

Team collaboration

Education

High school diploma

Job description

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

The PSA is a primary member of the support team. Works collaboratively with the direct care team to provide patient care, supply management, transportation services, equipment management and a member of the code response team

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Transports patients from clinical departments with proper notification of both the requesting and receiving departments while providing proper care to patients during transport. Cleans transport equipment between patients following hospital policy.
• Active member of the code response team (Code Blue, Code Trauma Activation, Code Massive Transfusion and Code Stroke) assisting with transportation of the patient and/or retrieval of life saving equipment, supplies and/or blood products.
• Cleans equipment for all discharges or discontinued therapies.
• Maintains nurse server inventory, reviews inventory usage with inventory planner, stocks linen in the rooms to meet customer needs.
• Completes daily check and restocking of supplies for code blue stretcher and code carts.
• Responsible for delivery and tracking of med/surg. units telemetry devices.
• Performs other duties consistent with purpose of job as directed.

Required

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Requisition ID: 26010302
• Daily Work Times: 7:00am-7:30pm
• On Call: No

Equal Opportunity Employer

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.