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Job Details

A Jefferson Health Patient Transport Lead oversees daily transport operations, coordinates patient movement, and manages staff to ensure efficient, safe, and timely patient transport across the hospital. They supervise teams of transporters, utilize systems like Epic to track requests, monitor performance, and ensure compliance with safety and infection control policies. Safely moves patients between inpatient rooms, emergency, radiology, and other departments, often assisting with bed-to-wheelchair/stretcher transfers.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Patient Transport & Transfer: Safely move patients between inpatient rooms, emergency, radiology, and other departments, often assisting with bed-to-wheelchair/stretcher transfers.
• Safety & Communication: Monitor patients during transport for, and report, any adverse changes in condition. Communicate arrivals/departures to nursing staff.
• Compliance: Adhere to infection control, isolation policies, and safety standards. 
• Operational Leadership: Manages daily operations and workflows of the transport team, improving efficiency and reducing turn-around times.
• Staff Management: Supervises, mentors, and assists with hiring and training transport staff.
• Coordination & Workflow: Coordinates patient transport with nursing and medical staff for testing, procedures, and discharges.
• Safety & Quality Assurance: Ensures adherence to infection control, safety procedures (PPE, OSHA), and monitors patient identification.
• Technology Utilization: Uses Epic or similar software to manage transport requests and monitor performance data.
• Equipment Management: Monitors the maintenance, cleaning, and tracking of transportation equipment (stretchers, wheelchairs). 

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Albert Einstein Medical Center

Primary Location Address

559 W. Germantown Pike, East Norriton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.