Courier II - Full Time - Day

Hackensack Meridian Health•Neptune City, NJ

5d•$17

About The Position

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change. The Courier II is responsible for transporting items needed by the various departments within the Medical Center and throughout all HMH facilities.

Requirements

High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
Prior experience transporting equipment and supplies.
Valid New Jersey driver`s license.

Responsibilities

Picks up and delivers materials from Distribution to departments throughout the Cancer Center and HMH facilities.
Returns used unused supplies to the Medical Center.
Patient escort/transportation to and from the inpatient units, Radiation, and Radiology.
Equipment (recliner, mini med pumps, vital sign machines, pheresis machines, stretchers) being moved from one satellite to another or back and forth to the Medical Center.
Delivers patient medical records to all Cancer Center sites following HIM policy ensuring HIPAA compliance.
Delivers chemotherapy and other medications promptly and efficiently adhering to safely handling as per Cancer Center policy.
Daily pickup and delivery of all pantry supplies; restock the pantries, ordering of all pantry supplies.
As applicable performs daily checking/documenting of refrigerator temperatures following policy. Report all discrepancies to the Nurse Manager.
Provide afternoon meal pickup for the transplant patients.
When appropriate, serve lunch trays to patients.
Delivers all mail/interoffice communication to the satellites, hospital campus, and within the local community as needed/requested by Cancer Center staff.
Delivers blood and platelets to all Cancer Center sites, adhering to safe handling as per HMH policy.
Transportations of all collected specimens to the appropriate labs.
Provides daily exchanges of oxygen tanks as directed by charge nurse or Nurse Manager.
Provides laundry and supplies to Apartments for Transplant program daily.
Pickup of lab specimens and brings them to the lab.
Adheres to the standards identified in the Medical Center`s Organizational Competencies.
Lifts a minimum of 50 lbs., pushes and pulls a minimum of 100 lbs., and stands a minimum of 8 hours a day.