Patient Transporter - Full Time - Utah Valley Hospital - Provo, UT

Job Description:

This position is responsible for transporting of patients, focusing on quality, safety, and customer service, while providing care and compassion to patients, families, visitors and staff.

Department Location: Utah Valley Hospital

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 - Full Time

Benefit Eligible: Yes

Pay: 15.00 Experience

Why Join Our Team at Intermountain Healthcare?

Total Rewards (Caregivers are Benefit Eligible at 20 budgeted hours per week)

• Incredible Medical and Dental Insurance

• Up to 25 days of PTO every year

• Investment 401K Match

• Tons of growth and promotional opportunities within the Hospitals/clinics and throughout the organization

• Education Assistance - Tuition Reimbursement, PEAK -Online Learning- Tuition paid by Intermountain directly to the academic institutions

*Job Satisfaction - Feel part of the community as you help serve the community by helping people live the healthiest lives possible!

Essential Job Duties

• Transports inpatients in a safe and efficient manner.

• Uses appropriate and approved transport pathways to ensure confidentiality. Uses appropriate method of travel and equipment as directed.

• Uses Safe Patient Handling equipment as indicated

• Uses isolation precautions and/or standard precautions appropriately.

• Places soiled linen in designated areas.

• Dresses carts and wheelchairs with linen per procedure.

• Cleans transport equipment before and after every single patient and returns to appropriate storage areas.

• Responds to Code Disaster, Code Green, Code Pink, Code Red, and Code Yellow when required. Knows location of fire extinguishers and fire pull boxes.

• Always notifies patient nurse when taking or returning patient to/from room and notifies test site staff when patient arrives for test.

• Utilizes written Patient Handoff Form and ensures that handoff form is filled out prior to initiating transport and signs and turns in form immediately after completion of transport.

• Writes test location on whiteboard in patient room when leaving with patient.

• Notifies patient nurse or test site staff of any problems that occurred during transport concerning patient condition or safety.

• Responds to pager or other communication device such as Vocera badges in a timely and effective manner.

• Communicates openly with operators and with other staff members.

• Informs test sites and operators of any delays and clears transports when completed.

• Communicates with test sites if transport will be delayed.

Minimum Requirements

• BLS Certification for Healthcare Providers.

• Must be at least 18 years of age if working in Radiology areas (per Intermountain's Employment of Minors Policy).

Preferred Requirements

• Previous experience working in a hospital environment.

• CNA experience

Physical Requirements:

Carrying, Hearing/Listening, Lifting, Pushing/Pulling, Seeing, Speaking, Walking, Standing.

Location:

Utah Valley Hospital

Work City:

Provo

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40