What are the responsibilities and job description for the Scheduler position at ScionHealth?
Description
Essential Functions:
To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation:
Education:
Essential Functions:
To perform this job, an individual must perform each essential function satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation:
- Works directly with physician’s offices to schedule diagnostic and invasive procedures
- Receives referrals by phone from the doctor’s office and accurately gathers all necessary information in a courteous manner
- Coordinates on-going schedule between doctor’s office and hospital ancillary departments
- Works with department staff and ancillary departments to expediate patient care. Meets standards required of the job
- Distributes schedules daily to each ancillary department listing all procedures to be performed at our facility
- Communicates all pertinent information to appropriate personnel with regard to equipment and/or scheduling
- Immediately notifies appropriate directors of downtime for equipment
- Responds to changes in work schedule; demonstrates flexibility in view of interruptions
- Demonstrates competency in how to operate all equipment required in the course of performing job duties
- Demonstrates the ability to set priorities in the work schedule of each day’s duties and accomplishes those priorities
- Follow facility and department policies as it pertains to time off
- Completes all paperwork accurately and in a timely manner
- Make out schedule for pre-admission testing daily
- Maintains accurate log of all scheduled procedures daily
- Maintains accurate records of all follow-up calls to patients, other departments and physicians
- Cleans and sanitizes telephone and desk in assigned area
- Other duties as assigned
Education:
- High School Diploma or Equivalent, required. Medical and radiological terminology preferred
- Must be able to read and write
- Requires the ability to work with minimal supervision
- Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action
