Duties &
Responsibilities:
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Job Summary
The Driver provides transportation services to people with special needs, Oroville Hospital staff and physicians. Clients include persons who are confined to wheelchairs, individuals who may need assistance walking, whose medical treatments cause weakness or dizziness as well as persons who require supervision due to mental or emotional disabilities.
Duties
- Transports sick, injured or convalescent persons via wheelchair or gurney
- Provides exceptional personal service to clients
- Transports Oroville Hospital staff, from parking area to work area
- Transports Physicians to and from surrounding areas
- Provides personal assistance or care, to clients and coworkers
- Maintains vehicle cleanliness and upkeep
- Performs other duties as assigned
- On-Call coverage will be required
Organizational Expectations
- Provides a positive and professional representation of the organization
- Promotes culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation, and prevention
- Maintains hospital standards for a clean and quiet patient environment to maintain a positive patient care experience
- Adheres to infection-control policies and protocols
- Participates in ongoing quality improvement activities
- Maintains compliance with organization’s policies, as well as established practices, protocols, and procedures of the position, department, and applicable professional standards
- Complies with organizational and regulatory policies for handling confidential patient information
- Demonstrates excellent customer service through his/her attitude and actions, consistent with the standards contained in the Vision, Mission, and Values of the organization
- Adheres to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements
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Other Info:
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Lifting Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to perform work, which involves the frequent lifting, carrying, pulling and/or pushing of 100 pounds with occasional heavier lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling (with help). Employees in this position will require the mobility to stand, climb, stoop, reach and bend. Persons in this position require the mobility of arms to reach and dexterity of hands to grasp and manipulate objects of heavy weight at high pressure. Persons in this position require vision (which may be corrected) to reach the small print.
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