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Position Summary
Transportation Aides are para-professional employees trained to provide personal care and health-related services. Transportation Aides help care for people who are sick, injured, convalescent or disabled. Transportation Aides work under the direction of staff nurse, RN Supervisor and the Director of Nursing and/or Assistant Director of Nursing; the nature of the direction and supervision required varies by job setting.
Position Responsibilities
Transportation Aides are trained to provide transportation and auxiliary services, such as transport to appointments and/or activities, personal care and assistance with daily living tasks. Common responsibilities of Transportation Aides include (but are not limited to):
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Position Requirements
Working Conditions
Because the patients need round-the clock care, working hours include days, nights, weekends and holidays. The number of patients assigned per shift will vary with facility and specialty, if applicable. Transportation Aides must guard against back injury because they may have to assist CNA's with patient repositioning and transfers; they must follow proper company procedures as it relates to the use of mechanical patient lift devices. Employees are encouraged to safely move patients and request assistance to roll/lift/transfer patients. Transportation Aides may face hazards from exposure to chemicals and infectious diseases. In addition, the population cared for will contain patients that are confused, irrational, agitated, and/or uncooperative.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach forward with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and may lift and/or move 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. Physical Demand Ratings are an estimate of the overall strength requirements that are consider to be important for an average, successful work performance of a specific job. The overall physical demand rating for Transportation Aide falls within the Medium classification. However, due to the resident population, this position has been classified as Heavy (exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 20 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects). Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
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Social & Legal Services
$26k-33k (estimate)
10/12/2023
07/24/2024
fhsinc.org
BATON ROUGE, LA
500 - 1,000
1987
RICHARD T DASPIT SR
<$5M
Social & Legal Services
The job skills required for Transportation Aide include Patient Transport, Accountability, Confidentiality, Time Management, etc. Having related job skills and expertise will give you an advantage when applying to be a Transportation Aide. That makes you unique and can impact how much salary you can get paid. Below are job openings related to skills required by Transportation Aide. Select any job title you are interested in and start to search job requirements.
The following is the career advancement route for Transportation Aide positions, which can be used as a reference in future career path planning. As a Transportation Aide, it can be promoted into senior positions as a Patient Navigator that are expected to handle more key tasks, people in this role will get a higher salary paid than an ordinary Transportation Aide. You can explore the career advancement for a Transportation Aide below and select your interested title to get hiring information.