Patient Experience Associate

NYU Langone Health • Brooklyn, NY

10d • Onsite

About The Position

NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn is a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The hospital is central to a comprehensive network of affiliated ambulatory and outpatient practices, and serves as NYU Langone Health's anchor for healthcare access, growth, and delivery in the entire borough. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

Position Summary: We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Patient Experience Associate. In this role, the successful candidate The Patient Experience Associate welcomes and screens all visitors, vendors, patients, and employees entering the hospital using excellent communication skills. The Patient Experience Associate operates independently and is responsible for access control into the hospital by ensuring visitor and employee screening policies are enforced.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree
• 2 years of customer service experience especially as it relates to clear, empathic communication, and the ability to quickly & effectively triage escalations.
• Attention to detail, organization, and ability to navigate potentially stressful situations.
• Must be self-motivated and able to operate independently.
• Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for access control into the hospital by ensuring all patients, visitors, vendors, and employees are properly screened as per hospital guidelines and policies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of NYULH current guidelines and polices related to visitor, patient, vendor, employee screening.
• Ensure visitor and employee screening polies are enforced by asking appropriate health screening questions.
• Properly takes the temperature of patients, visitors, vendors, and employees.
• Triage and escalate clinical concerns if patient fails screening to appropriate clinical departments.
• Collaborate and interact with the interdisciplinary team members & departments to support the needs of visitors, patients, vendors, and employees (i.e. collaborate with Security team for visitor/patient transport to Emergency Department, etc.)
• Ability to independently interact with visitors, vendors, patients, and employees entering the hospital in a prompt, respectful, and helpful manner through excellent communication skills.
• Assists with instruction/education of proper personal protective equipment (PPE) use, and provides masks to those entering facility without proper PPE.
• Maintains strict confidentiality related work information (in accordance with HIPPA)
• Functions as a respectful member of the health care team
• Cooperates and interacts with the interdisciplinary team members to escalate clinical questions and concerns of patients, visitors, vendors, and employees.
• Assists with escorting patients to their appointment/procedure if necessary
• Have the ability to efficiently and effectively respond to information request and ability to multi-task.
• Round in the units as needed, specifically targeting new admissions, greeting patients and family members and documenting interaction in iRound tool;
• As a member of the health care team, be visible, engaging and acts as a liaison for patients/families as needed and escalate any issues or concerns to the patient relations department;
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• financial security benefits
• a generous time-off program
• employee resources groups for peer support
• holistic employee wellness program, which focuses on seven key areas of well-being: physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level