Patient Transport Worker
Aramark
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Albany • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $19 per hour
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Maintains a friendly, efficient, positive customer service attitude toward customers, clients and co-workers.
- Responsive to customer needs
- Safely transports patients and their belongings, medical records, specimens and equipment to various areas of the institution to facilitate patient care.
- Safely moves patients with traction, IVs, drainage apparatus, oxygen and other medically related encumbrances excluding transfusing of blood.
- Effectively uses electronic devices or computers on all calls and requests. Notify dispatcher of the status of assigned duties and proceeds as instructed.
- Follows established department procedures to accurately verify and transport the proper patient by visually checking two patient identifiers.
- Transports patients upon admissions and discharge and assists patients into and out of vehicles at entrances (within limits as described by department safety standards).
- Adheres to the established policies addressing confidentiality of patient information.
- Transports decedent bodies to the morgue in a timely manner and ensures that proper documentation is completed.
- Adheres to all established systems and training programs to provide a safe working environment. Follows OSHA regulations and other local, state, and federal regulations.
- Maintains compliance with Aramark’s standards of operation. Adheres to Aramark’s Business Conduct Policy at all times. Maintains all records and reports to ensure compliance, with all local, state and federal regulations and codes.
Requirements
- Position prefers a high school diploma or GED
- Must be able to communicate fluently in the English language.
- Ability to stay calm in less than calm circumstances.
- Ability to work well under time constraints.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed, but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
- Must be flexible and responsive to change.
- This role may have physical demands including but not limited to lifting, bending, pushing, pulling and/or extended standing or walking.
- This role may also require uniforms and/or usage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Benefits
- Aramark offers comprehensive benefit programs and services for eligible employees including medical, dental, vision, and work/life resources.
- Additional benefits may include retirement savings plans like 401(k) and paid days off such as parental leave and disability coverage.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
patient transportmedical record handlingsafety proceduresOSHA regulationsconfidentiality compliancedocumentationphysical liftingbendingpushingpulling
Soft skills
customer servicecommunicationcalm under pressuretime managementflexibilityresponsiveness to changecommon sense understandingteamworkattention to detailpositive attitude
Certifications
high school diplomaGED