Communications Specialist

WORKING CONDITIONS AND MENTAL/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS Working Conditions:
* Must be able to perform job duties in a fast paced environment
* Frequently required to sit for long periods of time
* Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
* Hearing: Perceiving the nature sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
* Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
* Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
* Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than whole hand.

Physical Demands:
* N/A
Mental Requirements:
* Attention divided between issues requiring multi-tasking
* Able to supervise, train and lead other employees
* Deal with emergency and time sensitive situation on an ongoing basis
* Able to perform under circumstances of emotional stress
* Ability to make quick and accurate critical decisions
* Copying: transcribing, entering, or posting data.
* Comparing: judging the readily observable functional, structural, or compositional characteristics of Compiling: gathering, collating, or classifying information about data, people, or things. Reporting and/or carrying out a prescribed action in relation to the evaluation is frequently involved.
* Analyzing: examining and evaluating data. Presenting alternative actions in relation to the evaluation is frequently involved.
* Coordinating: determining time, place, and sequence of operations or action to be taken on the basis of analysis of data. May include prioritizing multiple responsibilities and/or accomplishing them simultaneously.

GUIDING VALUES AND BEHAVIORS
Employee must consistently exhibit our guiding principles:
* Patient Care - We continually earn the privilege to care for our patients. It is at the forefront of everything we do.
* One Team - We respect each other and achieve together what no individual can alone.
* Innovation - We are driven to develop solutions that inspire progress.
* Vigilance - We will never waver in our commitment to safety and preparedness in the fulfillment of our duties.
* Ownership - We are accountable for what we do and take pride in how we do it.
* Citizenship - We are dedicated to being good stewards in the communities we serve.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS
Reports to: Communications Supervisor and Communications Manager
Interrelationships: Communications Center-Communicators, Supervisors, and Director; Clinicians