Transporter

Holy Name Medical Center is a leading healthcare facility dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality care to our community. We are committed to fostering a dynamic and inclusive work environment for our employees.
A Brief Overview
Transports patients, charts, medicine, specimens, oxygen, supplies, furniture (including setting up tables and chairs for functions), equipment and other items to and from various areas of the medical center.
What you will do

• Transports patients and patient charts in a prompt, safe and orderly manner to designated areas. Promptly notifies appropriate personnel of arrival.
• Transports other items, as noted above promptly and safely to designated areas. Notifies appropriate personnel of arrival.
• Receives assignments verbally or via pager, responding promptly.
• Transports deceased patients to morgue respectfully.
• Maintains contact with department, as necessary. Promptly reports completion of task. Notifies supervisor or office of any problems on a timely basis.
• Follows procedures as outlined in Transportation Policy and Procedure Manual.
• Assists in maintaining an appropriate working inventory of oxygen.
• Maintains Transport equipment in a clean and sanitized condition.
• Maintains and respects patient, staff and hospital confidentiality.
• Transports and arranges furniture and equipment as required for meetings and workshops.
• Performs all of the duties of an Environmental Services Associate.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Education Qualifications

• High School Graduate or equivalent experience Required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstrates effective communication skills.
• Interacts in a respectful and polite manner with patients, visitors, co-workers and other employees.

Holy Name Medical Center is a comprehensive, 361-bed hospital offering leading-edge medical practice and technology administered in an environment rooted in a tradition of compassion and respect for every patient. Holy Name provides high quality health care across a continuum that encompasses education, prevention, early intervention, treatment options, rehabilitation and wellness maintenance. The Medical Center offers a robust roster of primary care and specialty physicians, and its Sister Claire Tynan School of Nursing provides academically competitive registered nurse and licensed practical nurse education programs. Ranked among the top hospitals in New Jersey and the nation for patient care, clinical performance, consumer value and workplace excellence, Holy Name has been recognized by NJBIZ's as one of the "Best Places to Work in New Jersey" every year since 2006 - the only hospital to have earned this honor. The Medical Center is fully accredited by The Joint Commission, is Magnet-recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, consistently earns Hospital Safety Grade A scores from Leapfrog Group, and is a national model for culturally sensitive care. Holy Name is a mission-driven facility whose quality standards and philosophy are rooted in the principles of its founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. Those principles are exercised daily by the Medical Center's dedicated and talented team of physicians, nurses, allied health employees, and a wide variety of non-clinical administrative and operational staff members. Holy Name Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)