Communication Dispatcher

Requirements

• High School or GED
• Major Responsibilities
• Answers all incoming, both external and internal, through the telephone switchboard system, along with assistance phones, code phone, security and after-hours engineering calls.
• Takes urgent callers info and pages out to correct people for physician’s after-hours.
• Maintains security cameras and compiles daily on-call schedules from numerous calendars, making updates/changes when needed.
• Dispatches inpatient transport, security and engineering calls.
• Pages employees and physicians as requested.
• Maintains the med gas system and troubleshoots within the hospital, such as smoke detector troubles, boiler alarms, chiller alarms, etc.
• Sends out codes/emergencies (rapid response, blue, white, fire activations, etc.).
• Books Endoscopy & OR cases with surgeons (evening/overnight hours during the week and through the weekend).
• Aids staff in forwarding/un-forwarding their work extensions.

Major Responsibilities

• Monitors security cameras
• Dispatches inpatient transport, security and engineering calls
• Pages employees and physicians as requested
• Maintains the med gas system and troubleshoots within the hospital
• Sends out codes/emergencies (rapid response, blue, white, fire activations, etc.)
• Books Endoscopy & OR cases with surgeons
• Aids staff in forwarding/un-forwarding their work extensions