PATIENT TRANSPORTER (FULL TIME)

Compass Group•Columbia, SC

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Crothall Healthcare, a Compass Healthcare company, is seeking a full-time Patient Transporter. This role is crucial for facilitating internal hospital patient moves, ensuring the safe, timely, and accurate transport of patients, medical equipment, and related items. The company fosters a culture of caring and belonging, offering purposeful careers that transform healthcare experiences and build lasting relationships. Crothall is a market leader in Environmental Services (EVS) and provides specialized support services exclusively to the healthcare industry, with nearly 30,000 team members committed to high standards of detail, safety, and excellence.

Requirements

Prior patient care experience required.

Responsibilities

Properly and safely transports patients, secures IVs, drainage tubes, etc., and secures patient.
Uses wheelchairs and other approved rolling stock to transport patients.
Demonstrates competency in transporting all specific age groups.
Ensures the safe, timely and accurate transport of patients to their destination using the proper requested equipment.
Communicates effectively with nursing personnel, clinicians, technicians or reception and dispatch.
Ensures the comfort of the patient by being attentive, offering blankets, checking modesty and engaging in appropriate conversation.
Alerts nursing staff immediately to any signs of patient distress or equipment malfunction.
Maintains equipment and reports equipment needing repairs.
Complies with regulatory agency standards, including federal, state and JCAHO.
Adheres to facility confidentiality and patient’s rights policy as outlined in the facilities HIPPA policies and procedures.
Performs other duties as assigned.