Norfolk, Virginia
Newark, Delaware
Memphis, Tennessee
Washington, D.C.
CHESTNUT HILL, Massachusetts
Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
Posted: 08-Nov-24
Location: Santa Monica, California
Salary: Open
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Internal Number: 144272860
As a Transport Team Lead Technician, you will be responsible for positioning, transferring and transporting patients to and from various departments or locations by wheelchair, bed, or gurney and lifting, turning, transferring and repositioning patients requiring moderate to total assistance. You may also perform teaching and training functions, dispatching function, and limited clerical duties for the transport function. Other role requirements include:
- Equipment maintenance, cleaning and disinfection
- Assisting in the management of decedent affairs
- Training all new hire staff joining Patient Transport and Lift Team
- Guiding and instructing Patient Transport and Lift Team Techs on how to perform their assigned duties and maintaining daily huddles.
- Serves as Department Safe Patient Handling Champion
- Maintaining and posting daily shift activity logs
- Conducting administrative walkthroughs to ensure Patient Transporters and Lift Techs quality of work is in compliance.
- Serving as the Department liaison to conduct service recoveries
Salary: $25.22- $30.17 Hourly
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association or Red Cross.
- Understanding of basic medical terminology.
- Experience in patient transport or lift team.
- Ability to transport patients in medical equipment using correct body mechanics.
- Ability to follow established lift/transfer procedures in a safe and competent manner such as repetitive bending, stooping, squatting, standing, and sitting for long periods of time; and lift, push, and pull a minimum of 150lbs.
- Interpersonal skills to interact diplomatically and sensitively with patients.
- Ability to read, write, and speak in the English language.
- Maintain cooperative working relationship with co-workers and all hospital staff.
- Ability to perform basic arithmetic computations.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work to complete assignments in a timely manner.
