Patient Transport, 24 hours/week
About The Position
Winchester Hospital is a 5x Magnet designated, Top 10 Massachusetts recognized 223-bed regional hospital that is the leading provider of comprehensive health care services in the northwest suburban Boston area. As part of the Volunteer department team, this position involves various transport duties within the hospital to optimize operations and patient throughput. This includes assessing transport inventory, moving equipment, greeting and informing patients, assisting with transfers, transporting patients and their charts to different departments, notifying receiving departments, and assisting patients upon discharge. The role also involves prioritizing transport requests, responding to medical codes by retrieving and moving code carts, delivering items like laboratory specimens and pharmacy supplies, and responding to equipment issues. Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) is an integrated health system dedicated to creating healthier communities through seamless care and ground-breaking science, driven by excellence, innovation and equity. Founded in 2019, our system brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, primary and specialty care, behavioral health and home care services, and more than 5,900 physicians and 36,000 employees to care for more than 1.7 million patients in communities across Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Together, we are changing healthcare for the better.
Requirements
- BLS
Nice To Haves
- High School Diploma or equivalent
Responsibilities
- Rounds the hospital to assess transport inventory and moves equipment to optimize operations and to maximize patient throughput.
- Greets and informs patient of move process and identifies patient making the patient feel informed and comforted, fulfilling all safety and quality checks and procedures.
- Moves furniture around to accommodate the stretcher and/or wheelchair.
- Involves clinical staff in transferring patient from the bed to the stretcher or wheelchair.
- Pushes patient and the patient’s medical chart to the various departments within the hospital conveying empathy and reassurance while caring for the patient’s dignity, comfort and safety.
- Notifies the receiving department upon arrival and conducts a thorough hand off. Returns to the patient and explains the next steps. Stays with the patient if additional comfort or supervision is appropriate.
- Transports select patients upon discharge, waiting for their transportation, and assisting them into their vehicle if necessary, ending the patient’s stay with a friendly note.
- Prioritizes multiple transport requests to optimize patient throughput, reducing wait times to improve patient and family members’ satisfaction. Communicates with the requesting departments to collaborate on resolving transport conflicts.
- Listens for pages regarding medical codes and retrieves a fresh code cart to replenish the involved department’s ensuring the department has access to this emergent tool. Moves code carts to multiple departments to appropriately replenish the carts’ supplies.
- Moves patient care equipment and other materials. Delivers items throughout the hospital, as needed, including but not limited to laboratory specimens and pharmacy supplies.
- Responds to equipment issues in a timely manner to ensure availability of equipment and to maximize its useful life.
Benefits
- Vaccinated against influenza (flu)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
