Patient Services Transporter 1 Per Diem
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Norwalk Hospital Association
Norwalk, CT, US
Summary
The patient transporter is responsible for moving patients to and from testing centers and delivering medical equipment or supplies throughout the hospital. They also assist in maintaining a safe environment and provide coverage for emergency code situations.
Job Description
Summary:
The patient transporter brings patients to and from their designated testing centers, delivers equipment to the nursing floors, and removes/delivers blood products or sterile supplies.
Responsibilities:
1. Transports designated in-patients and out-patients.
2. Assists in maintaining a safe and orderly work environment.
3. Participates in setting and attaining department goals.
4. Maintains confidentiality of all aspects of patients and their families at all times.
5. Utilizes communication skills effectively with patients, families, visitors, medical staff and hospital personnel.
6. Keeps current regarding job related duties through required inservice education and staff meetings.
7. Formulates and uses effective working relationships with all health care staff, patients & significant others.
8. Assertively seeks guidance and direction as needed.
9. Provides coverage for Code 99's.
10. Serves as dispatcher as needed.
11. Applies basic trapeze set ups and retrieves equipment for other traction sets.
12. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
13. Performs other duties as assigned.
Education Skills Experience:
High School Diploma or GED required.
Required: Must understand and speak conversational English and possess listening and comprehension skills. Must be able to work with young, elderly, sick and physically challenged people.
Desired: Bilingual desired.
Other Information:
High School Diploma or GED required.
Required: Must understand and speak conversational English and possess listening and comprehension skills. Must be able to work with young, elderly, sick and physically challenged people.
Desired: Bilingual desired.
Working Conditions:
Manual: significant manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity
Occupational: Significant occupational risk
Physical Effort: Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force
Physical Environment: Significant exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.
Company: Norwalk Hospital Association
Org Unit: 1631
Department: Patient Transport
Exempt: No
Salary Range: $17.00 - $24.91 Hourly
Norwalk Hospital is a 328-bed, not-for-profit, acute care community teaching hospital that serves a population of 250,000 in lower Fairfield County, Connecticut. The Hospital has over 500 physicians on its active medical staff, many of whom trained at the nation’s leading medical schools and hospitals, and 2,000 health professionals and support personnel.
Norwalk Hospital is a national leader in health care quality and patient safety. The Hospital was awarded the HealthGrades® Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ in 2010, 2011 and 2012, the only hospital in Fairfield County so honored. HealthGrades®, the nation’s leading, independent health care ratings organization, analyzed three years of Medicare data and determined that Norwalk Hospital ranked in the top five percent of all hospitals nationally for clinical excellence. This top tier of hospitals was found by HealthGrades® to have statistically significantly lower patient mortality and inhospital complications than other hospitals.
The Hospital was among the first in the region to implement computerized physician order entry, and its critical care nurses have been awarded the national Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence three times. In addition, Norwalk Hospital ranks among the nation’s leading hospitals in providing quality surgical and heart attack care, according to data from the Hospital Quality Alliance.
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Norwalk, CT
