**Lift Team Technician | Patient Transportation**

**UF Health Shands Hospital - Gainesville**

**Lift Team:**

Responsible for performing and problem-solving through complex/dependent lifts/transfers under the direct and indirect supervision of the patient transportation and lifting staff using appropriate patient-lifting equipment. Assists the staff with physically demanding tasks to prevent injury. Participates in the orientation of new staff and ongoing education and training of lifting equipment and transfer/repositioning techniques. Consults with nursing staff in development and implementation of lifting plans for patients. Assists in building a culture of safety to support clinicians in providing a safe working environment. Ensures positive patient customer satisfaction; proper utilization of body mechanics; and adherence to policies, procedures and standards established by Shands and the departmental management.

**Transport:**

Responsible for the safe, timely and accurate transport of patients, medical equipment and patient-related items to their destinations, enabling physicians, nurses, technicians and therapists to perform their duties in an effective manner. Ensures positive patient customer satisfaction; proper utilization of body mechanics; and adherence to policies, procedures and standards established by Shands and the departmental management. Transports patients in wheelchairs, beds, stretchers or wagons to patient care areas, ancillary areas and various outpatient clinics, as well as for discharge from the hospital. ** Job Opening Summary**

** Job Opening Qualifications**

**Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:**

* High school diploma or equivalent.

* Patient Care Assistant (PCA) desirable.

* 2 years of work experience required.

* Experience as a Certified Nursing Assistant, Patient Care Assistant or Physical Therapy Aide desirable.

**Minimum Pay Rate -** Hourly: $13.00

**Midpoint Pay Rate -** Hourly: $15.15

We invite you to join our team! Our work and passion for excellence are intended to have an impact beyond the communities in which we serve. You may apply for a maximum of 10 positions at any given time. For general application process topics please review our . For technical assistance please contact Human Resources at .

UF Health Shands Hospital is committed to diversity as a competitive advantage in attracting top talent from across the nation and around the world. We believe in sharing knowledge, learning from one another, valuing different opinions, and celebrating the things that make each one of us unique in our own right. UF Health Shands Hospital is an equal opportunity employer and drug-free workplace. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

**Why Work With UF Health**

Benefits to fit your life. As you would expect from an organization this size, our core benefits include medical insurance and prescription drug plans, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, generous paid time off, 10 paid holidays per year and an employee assistance plan. Voluntary benefits include tuition reimbursement, dependent care and health care reimbursement accounts, dental insurance, vision plan and more. Retirement benefits include a 403(b) plan.

UF Health Shands is recognized as Floridas premier hospital system, thanks to our commitment to quality clinical care that yields outstanding outcomes and continually earns us national recognition. It is our privilege to offer distinguished, patient-centered care and build upon our role as the states premier provider of medical expertise and specialties.

UF Health ranks 53rd on the 2021 Forbes list of Floridas 100 best workplaces and ranks 31st on their list of best workplaces in the nation for women. UF Health Shands Hospital was included in Indeeds list of the 2019 Top-Rated Workplaces for hospitals, which recognizes the 25 Best Hospitals in the U.S. We are number 20.