Surgery Scheduler

Riverview Health•Noblesville, IN

17h•Onsite

About The Position

The Surgery Scheduler is responsible for maintaining professional relationships with physicians, their office staff, co-workers, and other hospital personnel. This role involves scheduling surgical procedures in coordination with anesthesiologists, physicians, their offices, or hospital nursing units, adhering to hospital and anesthesia capacity limitations. The scheduler will also facilitate team communication through briefs, huddles, and debriefs, and actively assess situational elements to support team functioning. Key duties include gathering patient information for scheduling, entering and reviewing operating room charges, monitoring and updating physician preference cards, identifying and communicating resource needs for procedures, and potentially precepting additional staff. The role requires verifying communicated information and seeking data from all available resources, along with performing other assigned duties.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent
Two (2) years of clinical surgical tech experience
BLS (American Heart Association)

Nice To Haves

Certified Surgical Technologist
combination of administrative and clinical experience

Responsibilities

Maintain a professional relationship with physicians, their office staff, co-workers and other hospital personnel.
Schedule surgical procedures with the anesthesiologist, physician, their office or through the nursing units within the hospital according to the limitation of the hospital and/or anesthesia and surgery capacity.
Facilitate briefs, huddles and debriefs when necessary.
Actively scan and assess situational elements to gain information, understanding, or maintain awareness to support functioning of the team.
Identify and obtain necessary information about the patient for scheduling purposes.
Enter and review operating room charges into electronic system.
Monitor physician preference cards for noted changes and submit to the designated coordinator.
Identify additional resources needed for procedures and communicate this information to the necessary team members as soon as possible.
Precept additional staff members in the operations of the scheduling office when necessary.
Verifies information that is communicated and seek information from all available resources.
Other duties as assigned.