Transportation Driver/STNA

SUMMARY – To provide transportation of residents and of laboratory work to hospitals, doctors’ offices, mental healthcare centers and other medically-related institutions to assure continuity of medical and mental health services no available in-house.  Provide other transportation services as residents’ request.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES including the following:
*Note: Other duties may be assigned

·         Complete safety checks prior to vehicle use, scan to Director of Risk Management and to Director of Maintenance if there is an issue.

·         Transport ambulatory residents to facilitate that residents may keep their hospital and medical appointments.  Be willing to take the time and care with residents to help them as needed at the doctor’s office or hospital.

·         Assist Social Service and Nursing personnel in making arrangements for the transportation of non-ambulatory residents to medical and hospital appointments to maximize promptness of appointment scheduling.

·         Maintain calendar of appointments of scheduled transportation to maintain organized work routine, facilitate efficient scheduling, and to prevent the missing/forgetting of taking residents to their appointments.

·         Pick up medical supplies from Wayne Healthcare to be taken to the Nursing Department and collect the Brethren Retirement Community’s med rooms and nurses’ stations, lab work and medical paperwork to be delivered to Wayne Healthcare.

·         Take residents’ dentures, eye glasses, hearing aids, and other appliances for repair.

·         Attend Brethren Retirement Community in-services and community workshops to remain current and informed in issues relevant to transportation, long term care and gerontology.

·         Perform other duties assigned by the Director that will enhance the function of the department and the quality of care given to residents, such as, assisting with the admission of residents to the hospital.

·         Keep residents on time for their appointments with the Staff from neighborhoods are not able to get the residents at the designated pick-up area within sufficient time.

·         Use patience and skills in dealing with the residents who may be very frail, and who may be emotionally distraught and angry by their illnesses and disabilities.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

High school diploma or general education degree (GED).  Previous experience working with elderly in long term care setting desired.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instruction, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10’s and 100’s.  ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurements, volume, and distance. 

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.  Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Valid Ohio Driver’s License and excellent driving record.  Complete Defensive driving Course.  STNA/First Aid/CPR is a must.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully
perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

                While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit.  The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch and crawl.  The employee must regularly lift and or move up to 25 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to outside weather conditions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.  There is the possibility of exposure to infection if Universal Precaution Measures are not followed.

PRIVACY UNDERSTANDING

It is the position of Brethren Retirement Community that all of its employees have the potential to encounter both written and oral information of a private nature.  It is understood that as an employee the highest standards of discretion must be observed.  Under no circumstances will resident information be shared with any other person except for an authorized person providing for the care of the individual(s).

Employee completes annual compliance training & exhibits behavior as set forth by the code of conduct in the performance of their duties

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