About the Role
As our Patient Transporter, you will provide essential assistance and transportation for patients and related items across our campus, ensuring a highly customer-sensitive and seamless experience.
Responsibilities
- Promptly and safely transport inpatients and outpatients to and from various hospital areas.
- Meticulously confirm patient identification.
- Greet and assist in transferring patients.
- Make conscious observations of patient condition during transport, reporting any issues to appropriate personnel.
- Maintain a clean and organized work area.
- Report any malfunctioning equipment.
- Verify requisition and patient I.D. bracelet prior to transporting pt. to department.
- Transport patients to and from the appropriate care areas using the appropriate method of transportation.
- Maintain the cleanliness of carts, stretchers, wheelchairs and other transportation equipment.
- Monitor equipment to ensure proper working order.
- Assist staff in the movement of patients from stretchers, wheel chairs, or beds.
- Comply with Hospital/Department/Unit policies.
- Document activities consistent with Hospital/Department/Unit Guidelines to include keeping accurate logs of patient transport.
Requirements
- Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
Skills
- Strong commitment to patient safety
- Exceptional customer service
- Attentive
- Observant
- Ability to perform duties efficiently
- Upholding high standards of care and professionalism
Location
- Saint Joseph London
Work Type
- Full-time
Education Level
- High School Graduate General Studies, upon hire or
- High School GED General Studies, upon hire
About the Company
- Welcome to Saint Joseph London, a 150-bed regional hospital founded in 1926.
- Located on a 52 acre healing environment, Saint Joseph London offers private patient rooms that overlook a small lake and healing garden.
- Saint Joseph London has been recognized as a Best Place to Work in Kentucky for five years in a row (2020-2024).
- CHI Health Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people.
- CommonSpirit Health has approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
- The commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff.
- Clinical excellence is delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.
