Health Aid

Job Title

Job duties include the escort of non-critical ill patients; the pickup and delivery of items such as specimens and clinical reports; and messenger service within the Medical Center.

Duties include:

• Transports patients by wheelchair, stretcher, or bed to and from nursing units, clinical laboratories, and other related clinical areas.
• Assists nurses with transporting critically ill patients by maneuvering the stretcher, wheelchair, or bed to the destination.
• Transports non-critically ill patients throughout the VAMC, which includes multiple separate buildings.
• Maintains effective interpersonal relationship with patients, significant others and co-workers directed toward patient care.
• Ensures that Escort Service's assigned wheelchairs and stretchers are returned to the Escort area for proper utilization and accountability purposes.
• Provides for environmental, patient, and personal safety by using proper body mechanics, safety devices and techniques, and reporting unsafe conditions.
• Takes corrective action during simple potentially hazardous situations, i.e., removing objects blocking emergency exits.
• Reports any observed changes in the physical appearance and/or character of the patient during transport to the appropriate medical personnel. Documents completion of escort tasks.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 9am-1300pm Part-time only Telework: Not Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Salary: Represents full time pay. Part-time will receive have of the pay documented.