Patient Transport Access Center Dispatcher

Job Title & Specialty Area: Patient Transport - Access Center Dispatcher

Department: Patient Transport

Location: Dallas

Shift: Full Time nights 7pm-7am

Job Type: On-Site

Why Children’s Health?
At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.

Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community.

Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary:
The Dispatcher leads the clinical team within the Access Center during their shift.

Dispatchers use intricate knowledge of needed resources in order to ensure the deployment of appropriate units and to provide direction to ambulance and aircraft personnel.

Due to the job being time-driven, dispatchers must perform several tasks at one time while maintaining a high level of accuracy.

The Access Center Dispatcher uses excellent communication, multi-tasking and listening skills in order to ensure high quality, accurate job performance that supports Children's Health's mission to make life better for children.

Responsibilities:


* Works with a multi-disciplinary team across the healthcare system and medical community, utilizing excellent interpersonal skills to navigate the complexities of activating and deactivating crews.

Uses a dispatch matrix to ensure the safety of patients by dispatching the appropriate transport team composition.

Maintains knowledge of transport personnel capabilities, limitations, and the acuity guideline.

Uses multiple types of software to perform duties including but not limited to those that activate the transport team, dispatch ambulances and pilots, and track ambulances and aircraft.

Utilizes appropriate radio communications for all ambulances and aircraft.


* The Dispatcher is the Lead for the shift and dispatches and tracks the transport vehicles, which includes the helicopter, fixed-wing and ground vehicles.

Coordinates multiple aircraft landing at Children’s Health to ensure safety on the helipad and direct communication to air medical teams and permission to land.

Collaborates with the transport operational team leader/Manager on Call on all operational needs.

Assigns the appropriate team and mode taking into account the patient’s condition and location.

Documents all aspects of ground and air transports in Rescue Net and appropriate forms.

Coordinates with the pilots on airport and landing zone locations and arranges ground transfers for the transport team to and from airports/landing zones and hospitals as needed.

Assures the safety of the transport team by establishing and maintaining c...