Patient Transport Technician Lead - Santa Monica Hospital

As a Transport Team Lead Technician, you will be responsible forpositioning, transferring and
transporting patients to and from various departments or locations by
wheelchair, bed, or gurney and lifting, turning, transferring and repositioning
patients requiring moderate to total assistance.You may also perform teaching and
training functions, dispatching function, and limited clerical duties for the
transport function. Other role requirements include:

• Equipment maintenance, cleaning
  and disinfection
• Assisting in the management of
  decedent affairs
• Training all new hire staff
  joining Patient Transport and Lift Team
• Guiding and instructing Patient
  Transport and Lift Team Techs on how to perform their assigned duties and
  maintaining daily huddles.
• Serves as Department Safe
  Patient Handling Champion
• Maintaining and posting daily
  shift activity logs
• Conducting administrative
  walkthroughs to ensure Patient Transporters and Lift Techs quality of work
  is in compliance.
• Serving as the Department
  liaison to conduct service recoveries

Salary: $25.22- $30.17 Hourly

• BLS certification from the
  American Heart Association or Red Cross.
• Understanding of basic medical
  terminology.
• Experience in patient transport
  or lift team.
• Ability to transport patients
  in medical equipment using correct body mechanics.
• Ability to follow established
  lift/transfer procedures in a safe and competent manner such as repetitive
  bending, stooping, squatting, standing, and sitting for long periods of
  time; andlift,
  push, and pull a minimum of 150lbs.
• Interpersonal skills to
  interact diplomatically and sensitively with patients.
• Ability to read, write, and
  speak in the English language.
• Maintain cooperative working
  relationship withco-workers and all hospital staff.
• Ability to perform basic
  arithmetic computations.
• Ability to organize and
  prioritize work to complete assignments in a timely manner.