Transporter-Patient & Equipment Transport-Part Time-Evening-Mount Sinai Queens - Mount Sinai Health System : Job Details

Description Transporter-Patient & Equipment Transport-Part Time-Evening-Mount Sinai Queens Picks up messages, records, interoffice memoranda, laboratory specimens, and other items as assigned and delivers them to various designated areas and maintains related records. Operates elevators and transports patients, as assigned by a supervisor. Responsibilities Sorts and delivers inter-office/incoming mail and packages accurately and in a timely manner Arrives on unit with appropriate mode of patient transportation (including oxygen, if necessary) Introduces patient to self and destination. Confirms identity of patient with ID band Assists Care Givers in moving patient on and off different modes of transport Ensures patient's chart accompanies the patient to their designated area Ensures patients are appropriately dressed/covered for transportation Utilizes designated elevators to transport patients in a timely manner Follows proper Patient Tracking procedures (logging in & out, going to in-progress, completions and logging delays Timely completion of assignments Redistributes rolling stock (i.e., wheelchairs, stretchers) Responds to codes for transport needs Ensures equipment used for transportation is safe, clean and easily accessible Provides elevator operator services and audiovisual support Ensures that equipment is positioned and locked when stationary Ensures that side rails remain in up position, as indicated Ensures that needed bedside articles are within patients reach Notifies appropriate staff of patient status (i.e., return to floor, pick-up, and need for assistance). Makes sure destination treatment area knows of cancellations for patients that transporter is assigned for Practices effective and respectful communication and collaboration with other health care members. Qualifications Education Requirements: High School Diploma or GED Experience Requirements: Previous experience working in a large medical center or hospital Collective bargaining unit: SEIU Local 144-MSQ-NonRN SEIU Local 144 at Mount Sinai Queens, Q1C - Patient & Equipment Transport - MSQ, Mount Sinai Queens Employer Description Strength Through Diversity The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential. Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination. Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers. At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally. Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history! About the Mount Sinai Health System: Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high Honor Roll status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's Best Children's Hospitals ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's The World's Best Smart Hospitals ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally. The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism. EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans Compensation The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $23.1489 - $25.2344 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.Education Requirements: High School Diploma or GED Experience Requirements: Previous experience working in a large medical center or hospital Collective bargaining unit: SEIU Local 144-MSQ-NonRN SEIU Local 144 at Mount Sinai Queens, Q1C - Patient & Equipment Transport - MSQ, Mount Sinai QueensSorts and delivers inter-office/incoming mail and packages accurately and in a timely manner Arrives on unit with appropriate mode of patient transportation (including oxygen, if necessary) Introduces patient to self and destination. Confirms identity of patient with ID band Assists Care Givers in moving patient on and off different modes of transport Ensures patient's chart accompanies the patient to their designated area Ensures patients are appropriately dressed/covered for transportation Utilizes designated elevators to transport patients in a timely manner Follows proper Patient Tracking procedures (logging in & out, going to in-progress, completions and logging delays Timely completion of assignments Redistributes rolling stock (i.e., wheelchairs, stretchers) Responds to codes for transport needs Ensures equipment used for transportation is safe, clean and easily accessible Provides elevator operator services and audiovisual support Ensures that equipment is positioned and locked when stationary Ensures that side rails remain in up position, as indicated Ensures that needed bedside articles are within patients reach Notifies appropriate staff of patient status (i.e., return to floor, pick-up, and need for assistance). Makes sure destination treatment area knows of cancellations for patients that transporter is assigned for Practices effective and respectful communication and collaboration with other health care members.