Job Description Valet Attendant- Monday-Friday 9:00 AM-5:30 PM - 2106016 **Primary Location**

: TN-Nashville-East Garage **Description**

***Job Summary***

The Valet Attendant is responsible for providing exceptional customer service to patients/visitors in an attentive, friendly, and efficient manner. The Valet Attendant is responsible for driving, parking, and retrieving patient/visitor vehicles in a prompt and safe manner.

This position offers a consistent, full time schedule with competitive benefits , including paid time off. The starting pay for this position is $15/hr.

***Department/Unit Summary***

To provide safe, efficient, and reliable parking and transportation options that provide mobility, accessibility, and enhance sustainability for the VUMC community.

**Position Shift:**

Monday-Friday 9:00 AM-5:30 PM

**Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:**

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. **Vanderbilts** mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research

**VUMC Recent Accomplishments**

Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:

**US News & World Report:** #1 Hospital in Tennessee, #1 Health Care Provider in Nashville, #1 Audiology (), 12 adult and 10 pediatric clinical specialties ranked among the nation's best, #15 Education and Training

**Truven Health Analytics:** among the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in the U.S.

**Becker's Hospital Review:** one of the "100 Greatest Hospitals in America"

**The Leapfrog Group:** grade "A" in Hospital Safety Score

**National Institutes of Health:** among the top 10 grant awardees for medical research in the US

**Magnet Recognition Program:** Vanderbilt nurses are the only group honored in Middle Tennessee

**Nashville Business Journal:** Middle Tennessee's healthiest employer

**American Hospital Association:** among the 100 "Most Wired" medical systems in the US

**Basic Qualifications**

High School Diploma or GED (or equivalent experience) and 2 years relevant experience

**Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration (LCR):**

* TN Driver's License Required

**Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:**

* Light Work category requiring exertion up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally and uses negligible amounts of force to move objects.

**Movement**

* Occasional: Lifting over 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects from one level to another, includes upward pulling over 35 lbs, with help of coworkers or assistive device

* Occasional: Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or toward.

* Occasional: Crouching/Squatting: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.

* Frequent: Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.

* Frequent: Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another

* Frequent: Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.

* Frequent: Bending/Stooping: Trunk bending downward and forward by bending spine at waist requiring full use of lower extremities and back muscles

* Frequent: Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs/ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.

* Frequent: Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.

* Frequent: Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.

* Continuous: Sitting: Remaining in seated position

* Continuous: Walking: Moving about on foot.

* Continuous: Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching or maneuvering self, patient and equipment simultaneously while working in large and small spaces

* Continuous: Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands.

* Continuous: Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.

**Sensory**

* Frequent: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information

* Continuous: Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.

* Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.

**Environmental Conditions**

* Occasional: Pathogens: Risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other contagious illnesses.

* Frequent: Climate: Ability to withstand exposure to atmospheric extremes including heat, cold, humidity, and barometric pressure changes.

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