Patient Transporter, 20hrs *Benefits Start Day One*

Winchester Hospital; Winchester (MA); On-site; USD 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Beth Israel Lahey Health invites applications for a Patient Transporter at Winchester Hospital. The role focuses on moving patients and equipment across the hospital, ensuring safety, dignity, and comfort during every transfer.

Requirements include a high school diploma and Basic Life Support certification; prior patient care experience is preferred. Expect to participate in throughput optimization and compassionate patient interactions within a busy hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Education Required: High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience Preferred: Prior patient care experience.
• LIFE SUPPORT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED: Basic Life Support

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Prior patient care experience

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

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.

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QUALIFICATIONS

• Education Required: High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience Preferred: Prior patient care experience
• LIFE SUPPORT CERTIFICATION REQUIRED: Basic Life Support

JOB FUNCTIONS

• 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.

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.

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