Patient Staffing Logistics Specialist, Central BP and Staffing
About The Position
The Patient Staffing Logistics Specialist role combines two key functions: Bed Placement and Centralized Staffing. The Bed Placement Specialist is responsible for coordinating and assigning inpatient beds across the Texas Health Resources (THR) enterprise to ensure optimal patient flow and utilization of hospital resources. This involves collaboration with nursing, admissions, and clinical teams to facilitate timely and appropriate patient placements, balancing patient care needs with bed availability. The Centralized Staffing Specialist coordinates and manages staffing needs across various departments to ensure adequate staffing for optimal patient care and operational efficiency. This includes collaborating with CSO nursing and non-nursing teams, and enterprise clinical teams and leaders to fill staffing gaps and adjust schedules.
Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent required
- 2 years in office or healthcare environment required
Responsibilities
- Assess incoming patient information to determine appropriate bed placement based on medical needs, bed availability and hospital resources.
- Collaborates with entity administrative supervisor, Patient Logistics, Patient Access, Nursing staff, and physicians to ensure proper patient placement.
- Maintains expertise in bed management system to address and resolve any issues or conflicts related to bed assignments and patient placement.
- Performs quick registration and notifies physicians, patients and nursing administration of pertinent information such as account number, room number estimated time of arrival, etc.
- Drives best practices and standard operating procedures to enhance efficiency and patient care.
- Collaborates with nursing leaders, department leaders, entity and CSO employees to fill scheduling gaps.
- Coordinates real-time On-Demand and future staffing for Texas Health wholly owned and affiliated partners.
- Drives best practices and standard operating procedures to enhance staffing efficiency and staff satisfaction.
- Takes incoming calls from enterprise and CSO staff regarding absences and/or late arrivals.
- Utilizes staffing software and SharePoint to manage and track staff schedules, availability, assignments, and call ins.
Benefits
- 401k
- PTO
- medical
- dental
- Paid Parental Leave
- flex spending
- tuition reimbursement
- student Loan forgiveness
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
