Patient Transporter - Sharp Metro - Part-Time - Variable Shift

300 Sharp HealthCare; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 34,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in San Diego is seeking Patient Transport staff to mobilize patients using lift equipment and aids, coordinating with clinical teams to ensure safe transports throughout the facility.

Responsibilities include transporting equipment, supplies, specimens, and patients, using the transport tracking system, and maintaining safety and accuracy of patient handoffs and pathways. The role emphasizes teamwork, infection control, and prompt response in busy settings.

Qualifications

• H.S. Diploma or Equivalent
• AHA BLS Healthcare Provider certification

Responsibilities

• Mobilize patients using lift equipment and mobilization aids to provide safe transports.
• Transport equipment, supplies, specimens, and patients using the tracking system and ensure patient monitoring.
• Maintain safety and clear pathways during transport and handoffs.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Safety awareness

Mobility equipment

Patient handling

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

BLS for Healthcare Professionals (AHA)

Job description

Hours: Shift Start Time: Variable Shift End Time: Variable AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: Weekends Only On-Call Required: No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $25.000 - $27.640 - $30.490 This position is covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with SEIU-UHW. As part of the terms of employment, employees in this role are required to join the union within 31 days of hire and remain a member (e.g. dues paying, fee paying, religious exception contributor) for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement.

What You Will Do

Patient Transport assists with mobilizing patients using lift equipment and/or mobilization aids and other trained health care professional to provide safe and effective patient transports throughout the facility. Patient Transporters transport equipment, supplies, specimens, and patients using the transport tracking system; ensuring that the patients are monitored and the environmental pathway is safe for travel.

Required Qualifications

H.S. Diploma or Equivalent AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Preferred Qualifications

1 Year Hospital experience or similar experience.

Essential Functions

Communication and teamwork

• Practice effective communication in a demanding environment.
• Demonstrates positive interpersonal skills and attitude towards patients, visitors, physicians, coworkers, supervisor, and all hospital staff.
• Communicates relevant patient information to appropriate staff.
• Recognizes barriers to transporting and communicating with patients and their plan of care and seeks resources or options.
• Communicates incomplete transports to appropriate units and staff.
• Communicates with all team members in regards to day-to-day operations; barriers and/or obstacles for transporting.

Safety

• Effectively provides safe and effective transports of patients utilizing correct mode of travel.
• Complies with all mobility requirements and ensures that equipment is available, stored properly, and cleaned regularly.
• Demonstrates the ability to transfer and transport patients, with assistance, with complex clinical support equipment safely, maintains the integrity of intravenous lines, suction devices, feeding tubes, etc.
• Takes action in life threatening situations and immediately notifies the licensed nurse.

Patient mobilization

• Role models and utilizes appropriate use of lift and mobilization equipment and/or aids.
• Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, ambulates patient utilizing the appropriate equipment or assist device.
• Assist with lateral and supine patient transfers from bed to chair, chair to bed, bed to gurney, gurney to bed, bed to bed, etc.

Transport Patients and Items:

• Correctly utilizes the transport tracking system for transporting patients and items:
• Tracking and progressing jobs
• Accepting jobs - limited job rejections
• Delay and cancellation of jobs
• Uses mini tasks and task assistance when available
• Correctly identifies patients by using two patient identifiers.
• Transports patient with required patient hand-off protocol.
• Maintains the log book for signing patients in and out of the morgue.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of proper body mechanics for safe transfer of patient and self.
• Working knowledge of medical terminology.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California, with four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care. Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care. At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. It’s what we call The Sharp Experience - treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care. We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience by making Sharp the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care in San Diego.