Summary
Job Description:
Transporter - Transport
Full-time (40 weekly hours)
8-hour shifts, schedule varies (mix of first and second shift)
Occasional weekends required
Transport patients safely and efficiently to and from clinical, ancillary, and support areas via wheelchair or movable bed, to include transport of patients with oxygen tanks, intravenous pumps, drips, and special equipment.
- Provide distribution services of requested items between various departments as needed in accordance with established procedures.
- Assist patients with mobility needs, including transferring patients to and from beds, wheelchairs, stretchers, and other transportation devices.
- Assists with patient handling and lifting using appropriate patient safety equipment (including side rails, restraints, and falls protocol) and appropriate safety procedures.
- Ensure patient comfort and safety during transportation, utilizing proper lifting and transfer techniques and adhering to infection control protocols.
- Remains alert to patient condition and promptly communicate any sign of patient distress or equipment malfunction to appropriate personnel.
- Validate patient identity based on established department protocol.
Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent (GED).
- Basic Life Support (BLS) preferred upon hire and required within six weeks of hire.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Six months experience in a hospital or long-term care facility preferred.
Skills Required
- High school diploma or equivalent GED
- Basic Life Support BLS certification within six weeks of hire
- Six months of experience in a hospital or long-term care facility
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
