Description
Manages, plans and leads the operational, administrative, budgetary and personnel activities of the Patient Equipment or Patient Transportation areas to ensure consistent, efficient and cost effective flow of materials and services throughout the Health System. Responsible to monitor, analyze and manage the Patient Transportation and/or Patient Equipment areas and ensure policies and procedures are being followed. Responsible for the development of all transportation related services which include patient equipment and/or patients to and from destinations. Responsible for ensuring employee training and compliance in the safe transport of patients and/or equipment, while meeting customer service needs. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.