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Lead Patient Transfer & Lift Team Specialist

Peoria, ILOnsiteFull TimeLead$18–$20 /hrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • patient lifts
  • patient turns
  • patient transports
  • schedules
  • Tele-tracking
  • supplies
  • equipment
  • process analysis
  • process improvements
  • peer interviewing

Nice to have

  • BLS
  • American Heart Association

Role summary

OSF HealthCare is seeking a Lead Patient Transfer & Lift Team Specialist to coordinate and lead a team of specialists in performing patient and visitor lifts, turns, transfers, and transports. This role involves assisting with department schedules, assigning work, prioritizing workload, ensuring supply and equipment maintenance, and contributing to process analysis and improvements. The Lead Specialist will also be involved in peer interviewing, evaluations, orienting and mentoring new staff, processing performance reports, and developing improvement plans in conjunction with management. The position requires the ability to provide patient care appropriate to the ages served and basic understanding of communication equipment.

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Expected pay for this position is $17.66 - $19.63/hour. Actual pay will be determined by experience, skills and internal equity. This is an Hourly position.


Overview

POSITION SUMMARY: Coordinates, leads, and directs the work of other specialists engaged in performing patient and visitor lifts, turns, transfers and transports. Responsible for assisting with department schedules, work assignments, assigning specific work to specialists, prioritizing department workload via Tele-tracking, insuring maintenance of supplies and equipment, assisting with process analysis and improvements, peer interviewing and evaluations, orienting and mentoring new staff, running employee performance and processing time reports, developing process and performance improvement plans as needed in conjunction with management. Performs duties of specialist as time permits or work load requires. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide patient care that is appropriate to the ages of the patients served.


Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be 18 years old to be considered for position.

• Ability to read, write and communicate effectively.

• Basic understanding of communication equipment such as pagers, phones and computers.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• CPR Certification- BLS, American Heart Association 

OSF HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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