Patient Transport Specialist -PRN/3rd shift - Kalamazoo

BRONSON BATTLE CREEK; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 10,000 - 83,000; Part time

Job summary

Join BRONSON BATTLE CREEK as a Patient Transport Specialist, providing essential services in a compassionate healthcare environment. This part-time position requires physical stamina for patient lifting and moving, with responsibilities including assisting patients with mobility and maintaining safety protocols. Candidates must demonstrate effective communication skills and possess a high school diploma or equivalent. Be part of a team dedicated to high-quality patient care in Kalamazoo, MI.

Qualifications

• 6 months related customer service work experience required.
• Basic computer skills needed for dispatching and 2-way radio communications.
• Ability to lift weights up to 100 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient transport services throughout the hospital campus.
• Assist patients in walking, sitting up, and moving between devices.
• Maintain high customer service standards while interacting with patients.

Skills

Communication

Mathematical skills

Organizational skills

Education

High school diploma or GED

BLS certification required within first 90 days

Tools

Teletracking

P.E.M. phone system

Job description

Patient Transport Specialist -PRN/3rd shift - Kalamazoo

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Location

BMH Bronson Methodist Hospital

Title

Patient Transport Specialist -PRN/3rd shift - Kalamazoo

The Patient Transport Specialist provides a comprehensive array of patient focused services. This position is responsible for lifting, standing, and pushing patients in wheelchairs and on gurneys. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.

High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and 6 months related customer service work experience required.

BLS certification is required within first 90 days

• Must have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in the use of Teletracking and Spectra telephones is necessary.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and proven organization skills essential.
• Must have sound math, counting and analytical skills.
• Must be able to move quickly throughout the hospital on stat calls (zero pages).
• Must be friendly, positive, and professional when working with patients.
• Must be able to adapt to situations when transporting patients of all ages including children, adolescent, adult, and geriatric.
• Must possess basic computer skills for dispatching and 2-way radio communications.
  
  

Work which produces very high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g. CRT work between 70 and 90 percent of the time, and work involving extremely close tolerances and considerable hand/eye coordination for sustained periods of time.

Job definitely requires high levels of strength and/or stamina to regularly lift weights up to 100 pounds and occasionally assisting with heavier tasks or expending the equivalent effort in pushing, pulling, or otherwise handling material, equipment, and other objects.

• Assist patients/family and visitors in navigating throughout the campus.
• Able to navigate patients throughout the campus efficiently and safely.
• Transfer patients from one surface or location to another.
• Assist patients in walking, sitting up and moving from one support device to another.
• Able to push and pull beds, stretchers, wheelchairs and rental beds while occupied and unoccupied across different surfaces.
• Lift, pull or operate heavy equipment including beds, IV poles, IV pumps, oxygen tanks, morgue carts, electric carts, wheel chairs.
• Knowledge of unit locations and procedures areas.
• Knowledge of Bronson policies.
• Knowledge of situation when assistance is required.
• Location of charts
• Knowledge of supply room locations
• Ability to contact nursing and support staff for information and assistance
• Ability to appropriately utilize equipment such as slider boards, oxygen tanks, computers, etc.
• Ability to use patient transport tracking system and P.E.M. phone system
• Able to handle and transfer medical equipment including Foley catheters with collection bags, chest tubes, monitors, etc.
• Effectively cleans equipment after patient use
• Documentation of activities in log book
• Maintain customer service standards
• Able to explain activities to patients and families
• Verify patient identification
• Retrieve needed supplies or linens from supply rooms
• Transport visitors between campuses
• Transfer expired patients to morgue
• Release bodies to funeral home directors
• Prepare and retrieve bodies for family viewing
• Respond to code zero pages
  
  

Shift

Third Shift

Time Type

Part time

Scheduled Weekly Hours

10

Cost Center

1710 Patient Transport (BMH)

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Bronson Healthcare Group and its affiliates ("Bronson") strictly prohibit the acceptance of unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies ("Recruiters") in response to job postings or word of mouth. Unsolicited resumes sent to any employee of Bronson by Recruiters, without both a valid written agreement with Bronson and a direct written request from the Bronson Talent Acquisition Department for a specific job position, will be considered the property of Bronson. Furthermore, no fees will be owed or paid to Recruiters who submit resumes for unsolicited candidates, even if those candidates are hired. This policy applies regardless of whether the Recruiter has a pre-existing agreement with Bronson. Only candidates submitted through a specific written agreement with the Bronson Talent Acquisition Department for a named position are eligible for fee consideration.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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