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Department/Unit Summary
The Patient Transport department is comprised of 60 staff members that work together to ensure high quality patient care is provided while transporting patients. With the use of our Teletracking system, we excel in the movement and care of patients throughout the Vanderbilt University Medical Center
We average over 425 patient moves a day
Patient Transport VUMC includes 60 team members and provides transport service for multiple clinics, testing areas, units, and surgical floors.
Patient Transport VCH facility includes several team members who work solely in transporting children, teens, and young adults.
Patient Transport provides service 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Your Role:
Support the Medical Center by transporting patients to various patient care areas throughout the hospital. For more information regarding the physical requirements and environmental conditions for this job, please click here .
Maintain work environment in a safe, clean, orderly manner.
Receives, cleans and decontaminates transport equipment with departmental policies.
Utilize technology in order to receive transport requests.
Operates all departmental equipment safely and effectively.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
Transports patients to various areas of the Medical Center by stretcher, wheelchair or bed.
Delivers and retrieves transportation equipment as requested.
Utilizes resources to ensure a safe and efficient patient care.
Provides assistance in medical emergencies.
Ensures equipment is ready when needed.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.
SHIFT :
5 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. (12 hour shift/ 3 days per week)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is home to Vanderbilt University Hospital, The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital. These hospitals experienced more than 61,000 inpatient admissions during fiscal year 2015. Vanderbilt’s adult and pediatric clinics treated nearly 2 million patients during this same period.Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are recognized again this year by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals as among the nation’s best with 18 nationally ranked specialties. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is world renowned because of the innovation, work ethic and collegiality of its employees. From our health care advances to our compassionate care, Vanderbilt owes its accomplishments and reputation to staff and faculty who bring skill and drive and innovation to the medical center day after day. World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease.As th...e largest employer in middle Tennessee, we welcome those who are interested in ongoing development in a caring, culturally sensitive and professional atmosphere. Most of us spend so much of our lives at work, we want to be part of maintaining a workplace in which people support one another and encourage reaching for excellence. Many high-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt because of the professional growth they experience and because of their appreciation of Vanderbilt’s benefits, public events and discussions, athletic opportunities, beautiful setting and, above all, sense of community and purpose.Vanderbilt and its employees share a set of mutual expectations that have been created with productivity, legality, fairness and safety always in mind. We believe that our investment in training and compensating employees multiplies in value when we enable individuals to deliver their best performance for the benefit of us all.
