UCLA Health

Patient Transport Technician Lead - Ronald Reagan Medical Center

UCLA Health  •  $30.17/hr  •  Onsite  •  1 month ago
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Job Description


General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Tuesday to Saturday, 5:00 pm - 1:30 am
Posted Date
05/07/2026
Salary Range $26.48 - 31.68 Hourly
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
27706


Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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


Job 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.


As a condition of employment
, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

UCLA Health

About UCLA Health

For more than half a century, UCLA Health has provided the best in healthcare and the latest in medical technology to the people of Los Angeles and throughout the world.

Comprised of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA West Valley Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Group with its wide-reaching system of primary-care and specialty-care offices throughout the region, UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world.

Our physicians are world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses, and our hospitals are among the best in the country. Consistently ranked one of the top ten hospitals in the nation and the best medical center in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and our doctors and scientists are leaders in performing pioneering work across an astounding range of disciplines, from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment, and bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Los Angeles, CA
Year Founded
1955
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