Patient Transportation Specialist PRN

UChicago Medicine•Chicago, IL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Join one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic medical centers, UChicago Medicine, as a Patient Transportation Specialist PRN at our Hyde Park medical campus. This position is a 100% onsite opportunity. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area. In this role the Patient Transportation Specialist PRN, under the direction of the Manager or his/her designee, provides the necessary safe and timely transportation of patients, charts, specimens, clinical equipment, etc. to required destinations within the Health Center. The Patient Transportation Specialist PRN will also perform safe and mechanically appropriate patient lifts and turns on a scheduled or on-demand basis.

Requirements

High School or equivalent.
Requires physical strength and endurance necessary to lift, turn, and transport patients without causing injury to patient or self.
Requires the knowledge of lift and transfer skills to perform essential job functions without injury to patients.
Requires the ability to properly use various equipment used in transportation (wheelchairs, stretchers, IV poles, etc.).
Requires the ability to locate patient care areas, various therapeutic services departments, and various diagnostic and testing departments.
Requires the knowledge to conduct tasks according to departmental standards for timeliness, safety, and communications.
Requires the ability to properly use the telephones and pager systems to communicate with Dispatchers regarding work status.
Requires the ability to input and process data, analyze data, and think logically in order to match departmental resources to demand.
Must be able to maximize productivity and to minimize customer wait times.
Requires excellent customer service skills and the ability to problem solve and prioritize workload under pressure.
Requires strong verbal skills to provide precise instructions to staff.
Knowledge of emergency procedures; training will be provided.
CPR certification is required.

Nice To Haves

Prior patient care experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Follows established procedures to safely transport, lift, turn, and/or transfer patients using transportation equipment such as wheelchairs, stretchers, beds, lifts, etc.
Assists staff with patient transfers, turns, positioning, and lifting.
Notifies Patient Care and Physical Therapy staff concerning special needs to ensure patient safety during lifts.
Follows established procedures utilizing written logs to communicate patient transports.
Clean and distribute IV, PCA, SCD, feeding and other pumps/equipment as needed throughout the Health Center.
Patient Transportation Specialists will wear disposable gloves while performing job duties.
Communicates all activity changes to Teletracking System in a timely manner in order to maintain continuous contact with Dispatchers.
Responds to all emergency codes, including Dr. Cart, Triage, as well as all internal and external disasters.
Sets up and utilizes Demistifier for the safe transport of patient with TB and other airborne diseases requiring this level of protection.
Enters any patient schedule change into the computer, monitors patient requests and wait times, monitors idle time, tracks information to ensure data is kept current, pages employees to keep patient wait times to a minimum, and changes priorities as needed to reduce wait and idle time.
Maintains pagers and other communication devices, advises Manager as to the need for repair, distribution and collection of communication devices.
Maintains confidentiality of patient and employee information as well as daily sign-in sheets, cancellation log sheets, and daily vox files.
Answers phones using proper phone etiquette, assists callers with any concerns, helps resolve with Management assistance as necessary, communicates with management staff, and communicates delays and reasons of delays to the requester.
Performs other duties assigned.