- Location
- Bronson Battle Creek, United States of America
- Type
- Part-time
- Department
- Healthcare
- Education
- High School
- Source
- Workday
Description
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Location
BBC Bronson Battle CreekTitle
Patient Transport Specialist - Battle Creek, PRN- Variable ShiftsJoin Our Team at Bronson Battle Creek Hospital!
Position: Patient Transport Specialist
Location: Bronson Battle Creek Hospital
Department: Patient Transport
Shift: PRN Variable Shifts
Benefits Eligible: No
Make a Difference in Patient Care!
At Bronson Battle Creek Hospital, we are committed to helping patients, families, and visitors move safely and comfortably throughout the hospital. We’re looking for a Patient Transport Specialist to provide patient-focused transportation support while helping maintain a positive, safe, and caring experience for everyone we serve. In this role, you’ll assist patients of all ages, work closely with nursing and support teams, and help keep patient flow moving smoothly across the campus.
What You’ll Do:
- Transport patients safely throughout the hospital using wheelchairs, stretchers, beds, and other equipment.
- Assist patients with transferring, walking, sitting up, and moving from one surface or location to another.
- Respond quickly to transport requests, including urgent stat calls, while maintaining patient safety and comfort.
- Help patients, families, and visitors navigate the campus with a friendly, positive, and professional approach.
- Use transport tracking systems, phones, radios, and other communication tools to coordinate patient movement.
- Clean equipment after patient use and help retrieve needed supplies or linens from supply areas.
- Support safe handling of medical equipment such as IV poles, oxygen tanks, pumps, monitors, Foley catheters, and chest tubes.
- Assist with special transport needs, including morgue transfers and family viewing preparation, following established procedures.
What We’re Looking For:
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Six months of related customer service work experience required.
- Patient care experience and a consistent employment history are a plus for top applicants.
- BLS certification required within the first 90 days.
- A positive attitude and a strong desire to help patients, families, visitors, and team members.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while staying focused on safety and service.
- Strong communication, organization, basic computer, math, counting, and analytical skills.
- Ability to adapt when transporting patients of all ages, including children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
- Ability to use patient transport systems, phones, radios, and related technology. Teletracking and Spectra telephone experience is helpful.
- Ability to move quickly throughout the hospital and regularly lift, push, pull, or handle equipment and patients, including lifting up to 100 pounds and assisting with heavier tasks as needed.
Why Work at Bronson?
- A 2025 Forbes Best-In-State Employer
- Competitive salary
- Shift differential pay
- Comprehensive Wellness Program
- Rotating weekends
- Benefits start on Day 1 for eligible employees
- Work with a supportive and friendly team
- Opportunities to learn and grow in the healthcare field
- Be part of a hospital that values your hard work and dedication to keeping the community healthy
Apply today and help us provide safe, caring, and reliable transport support for patients at Bronson Battle Creek Hospital!
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and 6 months related customer service work experience required.
BLS certification is required within first 90 days
• Must have the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency in the use of Teletracking and Spectra telephones is necessary.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and proven organization skills essential.
• Must have sound math, counting and analytical skills.
• Must be able to move quickly throughout the hospital on stat calls (zero pages).
• Must be friendly, positive, and professional when working with patients.
• Must be able to adapt to situations when transporting patients of all ages including children, adolescent, adult, and geriatric.
• Must possess basic computer skills for dispatching and 2-way radio communications.
Work which produces very high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g. CRT work between 70 and 90 percent of the time, and work involving extremely close tolerances and considerable hand/eye coordination for sustained periods of time.
Job definitely requires high levels of strength and/or stamina to regularly lift weights up to 100 pounds and occasionally assisting with heavier tasks or expending the equivalent effort in pushing, pulling, or otherwise handling material, equipment, and other objects.
• Assist patients/family and visitors in navigating throughout the campus.
• Able to navigate patients throughout the campus efficiently and safely.
• Transfer patients from one surface or location to another.
• Assist patients in walking, sitting up and moving from one support device to another.
• Able to push and pull beds, stretchers, wheelchairs and rental beds while occupied and unoccupied across different surfaces.
• Lift, pull or operate heavy equipment including beds, IV poles, IV pumps, oxygen tanks, morgue carts, electric carts, wheel chairs.
• Knowledge of unit locations and procedures areas.
• Knowledge of Bronson policies.
• Knowledge of situation when assistance is required.
• Location of charts
• Knowledge of supply room locations
• Ability to contact nursing and support staff for information and assistance
• Ability to appropriately utilize equipment such as slider boards, oxygen tanks, computers, etc.
• Ability to use patient transport tracking system and P.E.M. phone system
• Able to handle and transfer medical equipment including Foley catheters with collection bags, chest tubes, monitors, etc.
• Effectively cleans equipment after patient use
• Documentation of activities in log book
• Maintain customer service standards
• Able to explain activities to patients and families
• Verify patient identification
• Retrieve needed supplies or linens from supply rooms
• Transport visitors between campuses
• Transfer expired patients to morgue
• Release bodies to funeral home directors
• Prepare and retrieve bodies for family viewing
• Respond to code zero pages
Shift
VariableTime Type
Part timeScheduled Weekly Hours
10Cost Center
1710 Patient Transport (BBC)Agency Use Policy and Agency Submittal Disclaimer
Bronson Healthcare Group and its affiliates (“Bronson”) strictly prohibit the acceptance of unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies ("Recruiters") in response to job postings or word of mouth. Unsolicited resumes sent to any employee of Bronson by Recruiters, without both a valid written agreement with Bronson and a direct written request from the Bronson Talent Acquisition Department for a specific job position, will be considered the property of Bronson. Furthermore, no fees will be owed or paid to Recruiters who submit resumes for unsolicited candidates, even if those candidates are hired. This policy applies regardless of whether the Recruiter has a pre-existing agreement with Bronson. Only candidates submitted through a specific written agreement with the Bronson Talent Acquisition Department for a named position are eligible for fee consideration.
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