Description
In this role, you will help ensure safe patient movement, support frontline staff, and contribute to seamless operations that directly impact patient care, experience, and clinical efficiency. As a Transport Team Lead Technician, you will play a key role in delivering safe, efficient patient transport and lift support services across the organization. In addition to performing hands-on patient transport, you will provide day-to-day guidance, training, and oversight to Patient Transport and Lift Team staff to ensure high-quality service and adherence to safe patient handling standards. You will be responsible for positioning, transferring, and transporting patients via wheelchair, bed, or gurney, including those requiring moderate to total assistance, while helping drive workflow coordination and team performance.
Key Responsibilities
Patient Care & Transport
- Safely transport patients to and from clinical areas using wheelchairs, beds, or gurneys
- Perform lifting, turning, transferring, and repositioning for patients requiring moderate to total assistance
- Ensure adherence to patient safety and infection control standards
Team Leadership & Operations
- Provide day-to-day guidance and direction to Patient Transporters and Lift Team staff
- Lead daily huddles to communicate priorities, staffing needs, and workflow updates
- Support dispatching functions and assist with scheduling and coordination
Training & Development
- Train and onboard new staff within Patient Transport and Lift Team
- Serve as a resource and mentor for team members, reinforcing best practices and proper techniques
Quality & Compliance
- Conduct administrative walkthroughs to ensure staff performance meets quality and compliance standards
- Maintain and post daily shift activity logs and productivity metrics
- Oversee equipment maintenance, cleaning, and disinfection
Patient Safety & Support Services
- Serve as the department's Safe Patient Handling Champion
- Support decedent affairs with professionalism and sensitivity
- Act as a departmental liaison to address service issues and support service recovery efforts
Salary Range: $25.22- $30.17 Hourly
Qualifications
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association or Red Cross.
- 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
May 07, 2026