Patient Transporter

Company: Emory Healthcare/Emory University
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: April 24, 2025

Job Description:

**Overview**

**Be inspired. Be rewarded. Belong. At Emory Healthcare.**

At Emory Healthcare we fuel your professional journey with better benefits, valuable resources, ongoing mentorship and leadership programs for all types of jobs, and a supportive environment that enables you to reach new heights in your career and be what you want to be. We provide:

- Comprehensive health benefits that start day 1

- Student Loan Repayment Assistance & Reimbursement Programs

- Family-focused benefits

- Wellness incentives

Ongoing mentorship, development, leadership programs...and more

**Description**

**RESPONSIBILITIES:**

+ Transports patients, records, specimens and equipment to designated areas throughout the organization.

+ Responds immediately to emergency patient situations; initiates emergency life-saving techniques such as CPR and crisis management.

+ Maintains lifesaving certifications.

+ Transfers patients to and from wheelchairs, beds and diagnostic equipment with minimal disruption to patient.

+ May be required to use patient tracking and information system to receive, record, dispatch, respond to and complete patient transport requests.

+ May be responsible for maintaining and managing transport related equipment and organizing equipment service requests.

+ Works regularly with patients, providers, nursing teams on hospital units, imaging services technologists and nurses and is a critical component to ensuring patients have a positive experience with Emory Healthcare.

+ May operate patient stretcher lifts; observes policies and procedures related to their safe operation.

+ Secures personal property from theft or loss; maintains confidentiality of records and information.

+ Individuals in Radiology are required to complete MRI Safety training and follow safety measures when transporting patients to and from MRI, and use MRI compatible equipment.

+ Must complete additional training upon hiring as related to appropriate PPE use, patient moving techniques, patient equipment care training for telemetry boxes, IV pumps, oxygen tanks and more.

+ Performs related responsibilities as required.

**MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:**

+ A high school diploma or equivalent.

+ Some areas will prefer BLS certification upon hiring. Others will provide training post hire. The ability to lift 75 pounds.

**Additional Details**

Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

Emory Healthcare is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Please contact Emory Healthcare's Human Resources at careers@emoryhealthcare.org . Please note that one week's advance notice is preferred.

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**Division** _The Emory Clinic_

**Campus Location** _Atlanta, GA, 30329_

**Campus Location** _US-GA-Atlanta_

**Department** _TEC Ortho - MSK EP Spine_

**Job Type** _Regular Full-Time_

**Job Number** _145489_

**Job Category** _Facility Support and Building Maintenance_

**Schedule** _7a-4p_

**Standard Hours** _40 Hours_

**Hourly Minimum** _USD $15.35/Hr._

**Hourly Midpoint** _USD $18.80/Hr._

Emory Healthcare is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing equal opportunity in all of its employment practices and decisions. Emory Healthcare prohibits discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age (40 and over), disability, citizenship, genetic information, service in the uniformed services, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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