Emergency Trauma Center Operations Technician

EMERGENCY TRAUMA CENTER OPERATIONS TECHNICIAN - FULL TIME - DAY

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives—and we help one another succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

The Emergency & Trauma Center Operations Technician will work under the management of the ETC Operations Manager and is responsible for maintaining the operational needs of the department including customer service, transportation, supplies, equipment and environmental service needs.

• Adhere to the ETC customer service standards.
• Assist with environmental service duties in the department or assigned area within the ETC including disposal of recycling/trash receptacles; also linen removal from laundry bins to proper disposal area.
• Assist with environmental service duties, as assigned within the ETC, including cleaning and disinfecting equipment, cables, stretchers/wheelchairs and millwork.
• Consistently use the patient identification band to confirm appropriate patient identifiers.
• Consistently communicate with clinical team members prior to transporting a patient.
• Transport patients safely throughout the hospital by the use of wheelchairs and with stretcher transports; utilizing the computerized patient transport system.
• Transport specimens to the laboratory, and deliver blood and blood products in a timely manner.
• Transport equipment by picking up and delivering to assigned treatment or patient care areas as needed.
• Assure equipment is maintained and has appropriate biomed labeling.
• Maintain adequate par levels in assigned areas within ETC department.
• Picks up slides for physicians to review from laboratory as requested.
• Obtain supplies from central supply as requested.
• Participate/Use the automated systems in a timely and accurate manner to assist with patient throughput.
• Assist with‑maintaining operations within the assigned area of the ETC (i.e., prompt care, pods A, B, C, D & E, Trauma/Resuscitation, Triage Areas, and Sorter Stations).
• Identify the needs of the patient population served and modify and deliver care that is specific to those needs (i.e., age, culture, language, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.).
• Adhere to the standards identified in the Medical Center's Organizational Competencies.
• Adhere to the uniform policy.

• High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
• Satisfactory completion of required internal ETC Operations Technician training program.

Minimum rate of $18.23 Hourly. HMH is committed to pay equity and transparency for our team members. The posted rate of pay in this job posting is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market‑competitive total rewards package.

HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH (HMH) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available to an employer the results of a genetic test, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.