Job Summary: Transports patients within the hospital and clinic area, including to and from the operating room. Works collaboratively with the nursing/patient care services staff to reposition and transfer patients. Uses patient care handling equipment when lifting and transferring patients to minimize injury risks. When lifting patients, the Patient Mobility Tech-I works with a second person who is trained in the proper use of lift techniques and equipment. Picks up and/or delivers laboratory specimens, blood products, wheel chairs, beds, mattresses, and equipment throughout the medical center complex. Essential Responsibilities: • Works with a trained second person to provide assistance in the safe lifting and transferring of high risk patients (as identified through the patient mobilized risk screening process) and patients that have been identified as appropriate for this service. • Utilizes proper body mechanics, lifting techniques, and observes hospital and clinic protocols. • Utilizes patient handling equipment, transfer devices, and protective equipment in compliance with hospital/clinic policies, vendor specifications, and patient handling and transporting protocols. • Maintains patient and employee safety as a basic premise of all tasks performed. • Must have the ability to recognize the needs and concerns of members, co-workers, and physicians while maintaining positive working relationships. • Transports patients throughout the medical center complex. • Assists physicians and/or other hospital personnel in positioning, restraining, and draping patients with sheets as directed. • Picks up laboratory specimens, blood products, wheel chairs, equipment, reports, x-rays, and other supplies on regular routes or as required and delivers to appropriate location throughout the medical center complex to include; responding to special delivery requests from other departments, assisting with the lifting of medical patients, removal and delivery of beds and mattresses to nursing units. • Assembles, disassembles, cleans and stores of Trapeze/Patient Helper bars (excludes traction). • Utilizes computerized tracking system to receive work related calls for transport, lifting and/or related jobs. • Promotes, ensures, and improves customer service to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service. • Reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditations and licensure requirements (if applicable), and Kaiser Permanentes policies and procedures. • Performs other related duties as required