"PATIENT TRANSPORTER"

Heavy, physical, and busy work that requires:

• Frequent, clear communication with co-workers.
• Good attendance record.
• On your feet most of shift.
• Need to lift, pull, and push without restrictions.
• Transporting patients on stretchers, beds, or by wheelchair with some patients weighing over 300 lbs.
• Ability to effectively and positively work with patients that may be ill.
• Transferring patients to/from beds, stretchers, wheelchairs.
• Transporting equipment.
• Transporting paperwork.
• Transporting lab specimens.
• Trips to/from other hospital departments.
• Cleaning wheelchairs and stretcher as needed for patient care use.
• Making stretchers with clean linen.
• Keeping log of transports, and signing in and out on log.
• Notifying clinical staff as needed for patient care needs, including when Lift Team assistance is required.
• Immediately responding as part of MPU team to unexpected and emergent situations.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED equivalent, or combination of education and experience.
• Ability to transport without physical restriction.
• Ability to multi-task effectively.
• Ability to communicate clearly and positively via verbal, written, and electronic means to patients, families, and co-workers.
• Ability to lift, pull and push without restrictions.

Hours/Days/Shift: 40 hours per week, variable hours, Monday through Friday. 8:30am-5:00pm

This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the AFSCME union, which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours and other terms and conditions of employment.

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.