{"id":5256,"date":"2024-03-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/?page_id=5256"},"modified":"2026-06-27T19:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T02:03:00","slug":"hospital-assistant-lead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/hospital-assistant-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Assistant Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18577 (NE S WFSE Campuswide)<br \/>\n22700 (NE H NI WFSE Campuswide)<\/p>\n<p>18709 (NE S WFSE HMC)<br \/>\n22774 (NE H NI WFSE HMC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>BASIC FUNCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lead and provide information to Hospital Assistants and volunteers; perform routine tasks in direct and indirect patient care, transportation, and maintenance of a patient care area such as assisting patients with daily living activities; preparing patients for surgery; performing non-invasive lab procedures, transporting patients, equipment and supplies; assisting with treatments, and conducting various clerical tasks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under general supervision, regularly assign, instruct and check the work of others. Assist in carrying out the services of the unit by serving as a contact for other patient care providers, resolving problems, collecting and analyzing quality control data, and developing and presenting inservices to Hospital Assistants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TYPICAL WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Develop and implement the daily staffing schedule;<\/p>\n<p>Serve as point of contact to other patient care providers;<\/p>\n<p>Assist technologists and other staff in resolving problems concerning equipment functioning, staff coverage, and interpretation of policies &amp; procedures;<\/p>\n<p>Provide input to supervisors on performance of Hospital Assistants;<\/p>\n<p>Collect and analyze data for use in quality control functions;<\/p>\n<p>Serve as information resource to Hospital Assistants in such areas as automated information systems, supply delivery schedules, and equipment assembly;<\/p>\n<p>Develop and present inservices to Hospital Assistant staff;<\/p>\n<p>Perform the work of Hospital Assistants;<\/p>\n<p>Perform related duties as required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>High school graduation or equivalent AND one year of hospital assistant experience in an acute hospital setting.<\/p>\n<p>Equivalent education and\/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and\/or registration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLASSIFICATION HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>09\/11\/1998: New Class<br \/>\n02\/10\/1999: Revise MQ<br \/>\n06\/01\/2005: CSR Class Conversion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW CODE AND REPRESENTATIVE GROUP 18577 (NE S WFSE Campuswide) 22700 (NE H NI WFSE Campuswide) 18709 (NE S WFSE HMC) 22774 (NE H NI WFSE HMC) BASIC FUNCTION Lead and provide information to Hospital Assistants and volunteers; perform routine tasks in direct and indirect patient care, transportation, and maintenance of a patient care area such as assisting patients with daily living activities; preparing patients for surgery; performing non-invasive lab procedures, transporting patients, equipment and supplies; assisting with treatments, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5256","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11695,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5256\/revisions\/11695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/comp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}