Tranportation Aide

CommuniCare Health Services

9d • Onsite

About The Position

Taylor Healthcare Center, a member of the CommuniCare Family of Companies, is recruiting a full-time Transportation Assistant. The role helps residents travel safely within the facility and to outside physician appointments and events, and also transports employees. The Transportation Assistant works effectively with team members to deliver quality resident care, manages available resources, and helps ensure residents’ needs are met in a clean, comfortable, and safe environment.

The role includes monitoring residents identified as elopement risks during outside visits, performing basic nursing care procedures as required, maintaining resident documentation, and following departmental, center, and corporate policies, quality improvement programs, and safety, environmental, and infection control standards. The employee attends training and educational programs to maintain certification and enhance care quality, and performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Requirements

• High school graduate or GED equivalent.
• Current, valid driver’s license in the state of employment.
• Five to seven years of experience.
• Graduate of an approved Nurse Aide Training Program, or eligible to enter such a program and complete it and pass a state test within 120 days of employment.
• Current Red Cross First Aid Certificate.
• Prior work or life experience involving independent decision-making.
• Compassionate and enthusiastic personality.
• Enjoy working with seniors.

Nice To Haves

• Prior work or life experience, preferably in healthcare or a service industry.

Responsibilities

• Transport residents safely to outside physician visits using facility vehicles.
• Transport employees.
• Assist with transporting residents within the facility to scheduled specialty appointments, including podiatry, audiology, optometry, and dental appointments.
• Assist with transporting residents to and from scheduled in-house activities.
• Provide one-on-one monitoring during outside visits for residents identified as elopement risks.
• Perform basic nursing care procedures for residents as required.
• Help create a clean, comfortable, and safe environment and ensure residents’ needs are met.
• Maintain resident documentation records.
• Follow established departmental, center, and corporate policies and procedures, objectives, quality improvement programs, and safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
• Attend scheduled training, educational classes, and orientation programs to maintain certification and enhance quality of care.
• Perform other related activities as assigned or requested.

Benefits

• Competitive wages.
• PTO plans.
• Full-time employees have a menu of benefit options, including life and disability plans and medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED