Scheduler 1

Beth Israel Lahey Health • Burlington, MA

1d • $21 - $28

About The Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. Coordinates the scheduling for patient procedures and services. Job Description: Essential Responsibilities including but not limited to: 1. Registers all new and established outpatients upon arrival, verifying, collecting co-payments, and updating required information where needed. Is responsible for collecting and data-entering information with high degree of accuracy. 2. Statuses all appointments at the time of check-in. Confirms that all appointments are statused by the end of the business day to ensure that all appointments may have appropriate charges posted. Enters all future appointment requests and indicates patient preferences or exclusions for dates and/or times. Schedules multiple appointments in the proper sequence and within appropriate time frames. 3. Regularly rounds with patients in waiting areas and provides patients with status updates as they relate to appointment wait times and changes. 4. Monitors patient waiting areas for cleanliness and appearance. 5. Works collaboratively with the Access Center at LHMC to schedule patients and create access. Meets established department productivity standards. 6. Works on the scheduling work queues and recall lists by calling patients to set up appointments.

Requirements

• High School diploma or GED required.
• 0-1 years related work experience required.
• Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.
• Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation.
• Ability to address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge and skills based on general precedents.
• Ability to follow precedents and procedures.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers.
• Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.
• Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.
• Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem solving.
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Work requires close attention to task for work to be accurately completed.
• Work routine is fairly consistent, but employee needs to be able to use judgment to respond to events several times a week.
• Close work (paperwork, visual examination)
• Color vision/perception
• Visual monotony
• Visual clarity <3 feet
• Conversation
• Telephone
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally in carrying, lifting, pushing, pulling objects. Sitting most of the time, with walking and standing required only occasionally
• This job requires constant sitting, Fine Manipulation using both hands, Keyboard use.
• Rarely there may be Power Grasping using both hands, Pushing/Pulling using both hands.

Responsibilities

• Registers all new and established outpatients upon arrival, verifying, collecting co-payments, and updating required information where needed.
• Statuses all appointments at the time of check-in.
• Enters all future appointment requests and indicates patient preferences or exclusions for dates and/or times.
• Schedules multiple appointments in the proper sequence and within appropriate time frames.
• Regularly rounds with patients in waiting areas and provides patients with status updates as they relate to appointment wait times and changes.
• Monitors patient waiting areas for cleanliness and appearance.
• Works collaboratively with the Access Center at LHMC to schedule patients and create access.
• Works on the scheduling work queues and recall lists by calling patients to set up appointments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees