Guest Services

Job Summary

Create a warm, welcoming, best-in-class experience for patients and families across their arrival for appointments and through their inpatient admissions. Serves as an expert resource for families regarding hospital and unit-based services and provides support for service-based requests and non-clinical needs. Provides administrative support for the inpatient units and works collaboratively with all team members to drive an optimal patient-family, and employee, experience.

Essential Job Functions

• Verification, badging, and managing visitor access for patients and families arriving for appointments and to the inpatient units.
• Ensuring any visitor restrictions or exceptions are identified and enacted appropriately.
• Orienting families to hospital and unit-based services, providing wayfinding assistance, and serving as a resource for families’ questions throughout their hospitalization.
• Providing administrative support to inpatient units by triaging calls, coordinating patient paperwork, managing admission, discharge, and transfers in the electronic medical record, and conducting environmental rounds to monitor supplies, office equipment and computers, and other needs as identified.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary teams on the units to ensure seamless communication for areas of responsibility.
• Managing surgical and ED waiting areas to coordinate updates to families, escort families’ post-procedure and within the ED, and provide additional support as needed.
• Rounding with families to proactively identify non-clinical needs and refer concerns to the appropriate resources.

Education And Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• 1 year of previous general office experience is preferred.
• Provides excellent communication and customer service to all individuals whether on the phone or on-site.
• Knowledge of Electronic Medical Record preferred.
• Microsoft Office knowledge preferred i.e., Outlook.
• Ability to prioritize the needs of the unit under busy conditions without supervision.
• Bilingual in Spanish or Polish preferred.

Pay Range

$18.50-$27.75 Hourly

Benefits

Lurie Children’s offer a comprehensive rewards package that may include differentials for some hourly employees, leadership incentives for select roles, health and retirement benefits, and wellbeing programs. For more details on other compensation, consult your recruiter or click the following link to learn more about our benefits.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employer paid group term life and disability
• Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave
• 403(b) with a 5% employer match
• Variety of Voluntary Benefits
• Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability
• Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Tuition assistance
• Student loan servicing and support
• Adoption benefits
• Backup Childcare and Eldercare
• Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
• Discount on services at Lurie Children’s facilities
• Discount purchasing program

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