Escort

This position is located in the Mobile Care Unit of the Health Administration Service (HAS) and is responsible for the safe and efficient transport of patients (to/from appointments) that are ambulatory, in wheelchairs, stretchers, medical beds, or other transport equipment in East Orange, NJ and Lyons, NJ.

Major duties

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Checks each patients name band prior to escorting the patient to ensure proper patient identification.
• Annotates transport information accurately.
• Raises and lowers stretchers, wheelchairs, and medical beds to heights appropriate for transport.
• Provides and adjusts escort equipment for safety and comfort of the patient.
• Assists patients onto escort equipment.
• Ensures patients have the proper center of gravity on wheelchairs, stretchers, or medical beds.
• Communicates with Nursing staff of any changes during transport.
• Assists patient care staff if patients need additional help.
• Uses convex mirrors in hallways to safely navigate around corners during transport.
• Assists with events that are scheduled for the residents.
• Assists and supports Nursing staff.
• Provides information and directions to hospital guests, visitors, and patients.
• Transports laboratory specimens when requested by supervisor.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: The schedule on an as needed basis and may include days, evenings, weekends, holidays, and may include rotating schedule.

Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved

Qualifications

PHYSICAL EFFORT: Work performed requires continuous standing, bending, stooping, reaching, lifting, and pushing. Required to push and pull wheelchairs and other equipment weighing up to 400 pounds; required to push and pull beds and equipment, with assistance, weighting up to 1000 pounds and also required to lift and transfer, with assistance, patients to and from beds weighing up to 600 pounds.

WORK CONDITIONS: Work is performed in various areas of the hospital building complex and at times, may be exposed to heat and/or cold.

Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements.

While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position:

• Dexterity and Safety
• Interpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)
• Materials
• Measuring Instruments
• Technical Practices Without more than normal supervision

IMPORTANT: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. All experience listed on your resume must include the month and year start/end dates. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Pre-employment physical required
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
• Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)
• As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.