Description
As a Patient Transport Specialist, you will play an essential role in supporting safe, efficient patient care throughout Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. You will transport patients, equipment, and critical items across the hospital while ensuring comfort, safety, and exceptional service.
Key Responsibilities:
Patient Care Support
- Safely transport patients via gurney, bed, wheelchair, or crib to various hospital areas
- Transport patients requiring oxygen (mask, cannula, aerosols) and follow proper protocols
- Move isolation patients using appropriate PPE and infectioncontrol procedures
- Assist licensed nurses with traction equipment, IV pumps, and transferring IV poles between beds and wheelchairs
- Follow Safe Patient Handling procedures and use proper lift equipment
- Provide ageappropriate support and maintain sensitivity to patient and family needs
Operational & Support Duties
- Pick up and deliver specimens, blood products, medical equipment, medications, records, and other items as assigned
- Collaborate with patient escorts, nurses, physicians, and other hospital staff
- Report unusual situations or issues to the supervisor or manager
- Adhere to all hospital and departmental policies and procedures
- Maintain professional appearance and conduct at all times
- Retrieve and return unused gurneys and wheelchairs to designated areas
- Train new hires and volunteers on transport basics and safe equipment use
- Transport deceased patients to the morgue using appropriate equipment; upon certification, operate the morgue van for interfacility transfers
Pay Range: $22.18 - $29.24 hourly
Qualifications
- Working knowledge of
departmental policies and procedures on the safe transport of patients. - Ability to establish
and maintain cooperative working relationship with other staff members
and all other personnel. - Skill in listening and
comprehending information received in person, by Pager, or over the
telephone to transport patients. - Ability to perform all
physical requirements pertaining to the transport of patients in beds,
gurneys, and wheelchairs as well as some heavy equipment. Able to lift,
push, pull a minimum of 150 pounds. - Skill in reading and
writing in Standard English text such as call slips and miscellaneous
clerical duties. - Skill in speaking
clearly and distinctly using appropriate vocabulary and grammar to
obtain and convey information needed in the transport process of all
patients and other items. - Ability to understand
medical terminology. - Ability to operate
medical equipment to perform certain job duties. - Ability to complete
calls in a timely manner. - Ability to transport
patients in a safe, efficient, and professional manner appropriate to
good public and patient relations. - Ability to accept new
responsibilities and work harmoniously with all hospital staff.
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University of California - Los Angeles Health
Feb 10, 2026