Logistics Technician (Transporter) – Labor & Delivery – 12-Hour Full Time – Days

Make a difference every single day

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of happiness, passion and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it’s just one of the many reasons we’ve achieved our fifth consecutive Magnet designation for nursing excellence. From working with a team of dedicated healthcare professionals to using innovative facilities, we provide you with everything to do something incredible—for yourself, and for others. Join us, and discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America’s Best Hospitals.

What you will be doing: 

The Logistics Technician, under the direction of a licensed care giver, and after education and demonstration of competency, performs a variety of direct patient care activities or tasks specific to the unit/needs of the patient population. The Logistics Technician is primarily accountable for transporting supplies and equipment interdepartmentally and patients in all age groups. The Logistics Technician identifies safety concerns in the age-related population; institutes protective measures to provide a safe environment, and identifies normal growth and developmental milestones in neonates, infants, pediatrics, adolescents, adults and geriatric patients.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Observes safety guidelines in transporting supplies, specimens and equipment.
• Utilizes appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when assisting in patient care.
• Takes appropriate steps in maintaining equipment including those used for patient transport.
• Reports observations and outcomes of activities performed.
• Reduces the risk of patient harm resulting from falls -observes patient for risk of falling and takes action to prevent patient falls.
• Demonstrates knowledge of normal growth and development in patient population.
• Improved the accuracy of patient identification: uses two identifiers when transporting patient between units/departments.
• Reduces the risk of health care acquired infection by complying with current CDC hand washing guidelines and CSMC isolation policy.

Educational Requirements:

High School Diploma or GED – required.

Knowledge of therapeutic positioning techniques – preferred.

License/Certification Requirements:

Basic Life Support Certification (BCLS) Approved by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross – required.

Experience:

Previous transportation experience in hospital setting preferred.

Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow’s health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.

Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.

Req ID

: HRC1471024

Working Title

: Logistics Technician (Transporter) – Labor & Delivery – 12-Hour Full Time – Days

Department

: Labor and Delivery

Business Entity

: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Job Category

: Patient Services

Job Specialty

: Transport Services

Overtime Status

: NONEXEMPT

Primary Shift

: Day

Shift Duration

: 12 hour

Base Pay

: $19.50 – $30.43

Cedars-Sinai is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Cedars-Sinai does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of the race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics or any genetic information), marital status, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, age (40 or older), military and/or veteran status or any other basis protected by federal or state law. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

Cedars-Sinai will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.

At Cedars-Sinai, we are dedicated to the safety, health and wellbeing of our patients and employees. This includes protecting our patients from communicable diseases, such as influenza (flu) and COVID-19. For this reason, we require that all new employees receive a flu vaccine based on the seasonal availability of flu vaccine (typically during September through April each year) as a condition of employment, and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment, subject to medical exemption or religious accommodation. For the same reason, you may also be required to receive other vaccines such as COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Cedars-Sinai reserves the right to make modifications to its required list of vaccines as required by law and/or policy. Cedars-Sinai’s AA Policy Statement (PDF) (opens in new window)