Job Description

Job Title

Transports patients and equipment throughout the Hospitals and Clinics.

Job Summary

Transports patients and equipment throughout the Hospitals and Clinics.

Job Duties

• Transports patients, belongings and deceased to and from assigned departments.
• Assists floor staff to ready patients for transport.
• Transports specific patient related equipment and beds to requesting departments.
• Utilizes technology system for various equipment deliveries.
• Enters rental equipment into the appropriate software when needed.
• Assists with wheelchair management by identifying those for cleaning and repair.
• Transports wheelchairs to Central Sterile for cleaning and to ISS for repairs.
• Maintains wheelchair availability in assigned staging locations.
• Receive assignments by calling into the Transport Tracker XT Program for movement of Patients and Equipment.
• Properly identifies patient prior to transport and assures that patient has an identification.
• Assists patients in and out of vehicles and transport equipment.
• Interacts with patients in a professional manner, avoiding idle conversation that excludes the patient.
• Collaborates with other healthcare team members to facilitate patient care and services.
• Maintains eye contact, acknowledges and greets patient, and communicates the transport destination to the patient.

Position Details

• Hours: 2:30 pm-11pm
• Weekends and Holidays rotation

Benefits of Working at Geisinger

• Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one
• Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents
• Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA)
• Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contributions
• Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly
• Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year
• MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive
• Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for your loved ones
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Referrals for childcare, eldercare, & pet care. Access free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools and more.
• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life and pet and legal insurance

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Required)

Skills

Interpersonal Communication, Patient Safety, Teamwork

Our Purpose & Values

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION : We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.

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