SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR/TELECOMMUNICATIONS REPRESENTATIVE

About the role

The Telecommunication Representative is responsible for making positive first impressions, maintaining focus on the overall safety of our patients, guests and hospital employees. They work closely with hospital and health system departments, physicians, employees, patients and their family members regarding a variety of hospital and health system services.

Responsibilities

• Prepare electronic documentation that are complete, professional in nature and uses correct grammar, punctuation and format.
• Intercept internal and external calls with a customer-friendly approach.
• Maintain a positive attitude with callers, coworkers, health system employees and physicians.
• Assure that customer needs are met in a timely fashion.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the Independence Health System Health code processes and other emergency plans using supporting department policies and procedures on the successful initiation of emergency codes.
• Efficient and accurate initiation of emergency codes in critical situations using Lynx, overhead paging, and Microsoft Office.
• Accurately records detailed information about all emergent situations using Microsoft Office.
• Answer telephone calls promptly, efficiently and courteously using a positive voice image to callers, keeping in mind the tone, inflection, and enunciation to all callers.
• Foster a “one stop shop” culture by listening to callers intently to determine the nature of the call to see if the call must be transferred or if it can be handled by a Switchboard Operator.
• Create and process messages, schedule and log that legible, accurate and communicated to the other staff.
• Provide call processing support to multiple departments and hospital physicians to maintain a pathway for necessary communication between patients and their clinicians after business hours.
• Collect, communicate and document confidential patient information using PerfectServe, MediCall, Spok, and Microsoft Office.
• Answer queries pertaining to admitted patients by following confidentiality protocols using McKesson STAR.
• Awareness of hospital campuses to accurately direct visitors to appropriate departments or patient rooms.
• Manage the issuance of pagers and assist employees with user guidelines.
• Maintain central database of all paging devices using Microsoft Office.
• Contact vendor for device exchanges and various troubleshooting needs.
• Review and revise necessary emergency code contact information on an as needed basis.
• Review department processes for necessary updates and revise as needed.
• Responsible for the day-to-day training of new employees and escalate training concerns to management.
• Create a professional working environment for new employees so that effective training and development can be fostered.
• Ensure new employees are directing callers professionally, correctly, promptly and courteously.
• Consistently review individual emergency code processes with new employees and conduct mock code situations to ensure that employees are prepared to work alone.
• Assess and verify call accuracy for new employees to include scripting and call connections.
• Consistently review patient transfer process with new employees and conduct mock scenarios as part of the learning process.
• Ensure new employees are mindful of physician protocols and can accurately process calls.
• Review patient privacy codes with new employees and audit processing of patient information calls to ensure patient confidentiality.
• Review new employee long information for all applications to ensure successful access.
• Daily review of all call logs to ensure complete and accurate information.
• Monthly creation of new call logs to replace previous month’s tracking sheet.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED, or Higher Level of Education.
• Previous experience in customer service.
• Strong leadership ability, good organizational skills, independent and critical thinking skills, sound judgment, and knowledge of legal aspects and liability of nursing practice.
• Strong ability to communicate complex and/or controversial topics and concepts to a wide and diverse audience.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook and Excel.

Qualifications

• One (1) year experience in hospital switchboard.
• Knowledge of medical terminology.

Skills

• Microsoft Office applications proficiency.
• Customer service skills.
• Communication skills.
• Medical terminology knowledge.

Benefits

Immediate response to emergent situations while gathering information from physicians and/or clinicians.

Pay

$1000 Sign On Bonus Eligible

Schedule

Incumbent will be scheduled based on operational need (rotate shifts, standby, on-call, etc.).