Details
Posted: 17-May-26
Location: Newton, New Jersey
Categories:
Hospitality, Facility, Environmental Support
Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center is seeking a Full-Time LEAD Patient Transporter. Required hours are: 9:00AM-5:00PM including rotating weekends and holidays (based on operational needs). Starting rate $20.05/hr.
Essential Function/Responsibilities:
- Leads and guides transport staff; provides operational orientation and monitors application of operational policies, procedures, and service; assesses volume/backlog status and reprioritizes and/or reassigns transport requests to optimize operational and service performance. Assist with maintaining team member schedules and staffing coverage.
- Cleans, maintains, and operates transport equipment and operates elevators to move or escort patients/visitors to and from various hospital areas, as directed, following established operating policies and procedures.
- Reports any changes in patient status/condition during transport; removes and reports defective equipment to supervisor.
- Assists clinical staff with lifting and moving patients for transfer and transport; ensures oxygen tanks required for transport contain sufficient oxygen and are safely secured for transport.
- Cleans transportation equipment according to Infection Control protocols; confirms patient readiness for transport and need for appropriate equipment and ensures that equipment is ready and available.
- Recognizes cardio-pulmonary distress symptoms, sends for code team, and provides interim basic life support for airway management and cardiac arrests until code team arrives.
- Uses patient transport tracking system to enter and receive patient information; track patient movement; assign acceptance and closure. Support daily operations and patient throughput management.
- Picks-up and delivers materials and equipment, as directed, to various offices and departments within the Hospital according to related operating policies and procedures.
- Transfers deceased patients to the hospital morgue in accordance with operating policies and procedures.
- Assists with monitoring department performance, quality, and safety metrics. Provide coaching and feedback regarding team member performance.
- Coordinates activities of Patient Transport team members.
- Assists with onboarding and training of new team members.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- HS Diploma or GED/Equivalent required.
- To provide a safe environment to our patients, we require that all candidates must be able to read, write and speak English.
- Ability to work well under time constraints.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to extreme cold and extreme heat and stands for long periods of time, bends, lifts, pushes and pulls up to 50 lbs.
- Prior hospital-based patient transport experience required.
Relevant Experience:
- CPR certification preferred.
- 5 years of experience as a patient transporter or relevant role preferred.
- Prior hospital-based patient transport experience in a lead or supervisory role preferred.
At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
- Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
- Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
- Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
- Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
- Atlantic Medical Group
- Atlantic Visiting Nurse
- Atlantic Mobile Health
- Atlantic Rehabilitation
We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
- Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For."
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the "World's Best Hospitals" in 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report's 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
- Atlantic Health scored four "A" grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
- Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare - 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
- Named by Newsweek as one of America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
- Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.
Since 1932, Newton Medical Center has been providing care to the people of Sussex and warren counties in New Jersey, Pike County in Pennsylvania and southern Orange County in New York. We are home to the Center for Breast Health, the only one of its kind in Sussex County, addressing all of a woman's breast health needs with state-of-the-art technology, resources, education, support and follow-up care. Newton Medical Center recently achieved the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Pathway to Excellence designation and is one of a select few health care facilities in New Jersey accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in all three echocardiography procedures: adult transthoracic, adult transesophogeal and adult stress.
Atlantic Health offers a competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports the health, financial security, and well-being of all team members. Offerings vary based on role level (Team Member, Director, Executive). Below is a general summary, with role-specific enhancements highlighted:
Team Member Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
- Life & AD&D Insurance.
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
- 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
- PTO & Paid Sick Leave
- Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
- Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
- Backup and On-Site Childcare
- Well-Being Rewards
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
- Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
- Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance
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Note: In Compliance with the NJ Pay Transparency Act (effective Sunday, June 1, 2025), all job postings will include the hourly wage or salary (or a range), as well as this summary of benefits. Final compensation and benefit eligibility may vary by role and employment status and will be confirmed at the time of offer.
EEO STATEMENT
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