Transport Team Lead Technician Iii - Santa Monica Hospital

Description As a Transport Team Lead Technician, you will be responsible for positioning, 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

Qualifications
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; and lift,
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.

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