Driver (Part-Time)

PACS • Mineola, TX

7d • $20 - $22 • Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of this position is to provide transportation services to residents for activities or medical appointments. This role involves assisting residents with loading and unloading, ensuring safe transportation, maintaining vehicle cleanliness and functionality, and monitoring maintenance logs. The driver must be flexible with work hours and proficient in safe clinical transfer techniques for residents, including those using wheelchairs. They must also be able to lift and mobilize resident weights and make complex decisions regarding resident care during transport.

Requirements

• Minimum of a High School Diploma or a GED
• Minimum – 25 years old
• Must have a valid DL
• Must be familiar with GPS and local driving area.
• No Traffic Crimes in the last 7 years.
• No more than 2 moving violations in 3 years
• Not more than one accident in 3 years
• Pass a drug screen and background check
• Ability to read, write and understand job related instructions and manuals
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, coworkers, and residents.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Proficient in the Microsoft Suite products.
• Must have successfully completed CNA or Caregiver training and maintain all CE to maintain certification.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and talk, read or hear.

Responsibilities

• Assists residents with loading and unloading from community-approved vehicles.
• Ensures the safe transportation of residents to scheduled medical appointments or other approved activities, resident outings, etc.
• Maintains the interior and exterior of community vehicles to promote safe and comfortable transport for the residents and project a positive image in the community.
• Monitors vehicle maintenance logs and delivers vehicles for regularly scheduled maintenance such as oil changes, tire rotations, etc.
• All other duties as assigned.
• Must be flexible with work time (in the event a resident appointment or activity runs late).
• Must have training and be able to return demonstrate safe clinical based transfer techniques for: Ingress/Egress of mobile residents with vehicle, Transfer of residents into and out of wheelchairs, Properly securing residents wheelchairs into bays in vehicle.
• Must be able to lift transfer and mobilize resident weights of up to 70 pounds by self in confined areas inside vehicle.
• Must be able to make complex decisions involving residents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED