Patient Care Assistant - Patient Transport

Location Address: 1100 Central Ave SE Albuquerque, NM 87106-4930 Compensation Pay Range: Minimum Offer $15.50 Maximum Offer $19.73 Summary: Build Your Career. Make a Difference. We are seeking a dedicated Patient Care Assistant to support safe, efficient movement of patients throughout the facility while contributing to exceptional patient care. In this role, you will transport patients between clinical and non clinical areas, assist with basic care needs, and provide observation and companionship when appropriate. You will also help maintain smooth nursing unit operations by ensuring transport related equipment and supplies are available and ready for use. How you grow, learn and thrive matters here. • Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities • Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern) • Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions) • Malpractice liability insurance • Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department • EPIC electronic charting system Type of Opportunity: Full time FTE: 1.00 Job Exempt: No Work Shift: Varied Days and Hours (United States of America) Responsibilities: As a Patient Care Assistant, you will support safe, efficient patient movement throughout the facility while ensuring excellent communication, adherence to clinical standards, and strong collaboration with nursing and support teams. This role requires a dependable team member who can assist with patient care needs, maintain essential equipment, and contribute to smooth departmental operations. As a Patient Care Assistant, you will support safe, efficient patient movement throughout the facility while ensuring excellent communication, adherence to clinical standards, and strong collaboration with nursing and support teams. This role requires a dependable team member who can assist with patient care needs, maintain essential equipment, and contribute to smooth departmental operations. Key Responsibilities: Maintain and follow all established departmental policies, procedures, and expectations to ensure safe and consistent transport operations. Support established medical therapies during transport—including oxygen, IVs, restraints, catheters, and isolation precautions—and immediately notify nursing staff of any equipment alarms. Communicate effectively with patients, families, healthcare team members, and Presbyterian Care Connection (PCC) to support coordinated patient flow. Retrieve, store, and transport oxygen cylinders in accordance with hospital policy, ensuring safe handling and availability. Transport patients for admissions, discharges, surgical and procedural services, and inter‑unit transfers using the appropriate mode of transport (wheelchair, stretcher, bed, bariatric bed). Assist with patient transfers within and outside the facility, supporting mobility and ambulation needs as appropriate. Use automated bed‑tracking systems to document patient movement and collaborate closely with PCC to optimize facility flow. Gather, deliver, and manage essential transport‑related equipment, including monitors; deliver malfunctioning equipment to Maintenance for repair. Provide safety and security monitoring for assigned patients, respond to call lights, and alert nursing staff to changes in patient condition. Perform additional support tasks including specimen and equipment delivery, basic clerical duties, participation in educational programs, and adapting to organizational changes while maintaining confidentiality. Qualifications: HS/GED Less than 1 year experience in hospital setting and patient transport. BLS Required Receives on-the-job training and competency verification to perform primary functions. We're all about well-being, starting with yours. Presbyterian employees have access to a fun, engaging and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more. Learn more about our employee benefits. About Presbyterian Healthcare Services Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses. Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans. AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses. Compensation Disclaimer The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience and training, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs. We're Determined to Support New Mexico's Well-Being | Presbyterian Healthcare Services Here, we’re committed to a different way to make a difference. Presbyterian's story is really the story of the remarkable people who have chosen to work here. Starting with Reverend Cooper who began our journey in 1908, the hard work of thousands of physicians, nurses, employees, board members, and volunteers brought Presbyterian from a tiny tuberculosis sanatorium to a statewide healthcare system, serving more than one in three New Mexicans. We are part of New Mexico's history and committed to its future. That is why we will continue to work just as hard and care just as deeply to serve New Mexico for years to come. Connect with the Presbyterian Recruiting Team! FIRST, we want to make sure you’re in the right place. 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