Weekend Patient Engagement Partner - Connect to Care - Access Center

St. Luke's University Health Network • Allentown, PA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Patient Engagement Partner – Access Center role is critical to an exceptional patient experience. This role provides a positive patient experience during all encounters and is responsible for answering patient calls, scheduling appointments, working referral work queues, and assisting the patient with their current needs. The Patient Engagement Partner establishes and maintains ongoing partnerships with designated practice and clinical partners to ensure achievement of aligned goals.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent required
• Previous general computer experience with data entry required
• Requires sitting for extended periods of time (up to 8 hours at time).
• Requires continual use of fingers, writing and computer entry.
• Requires ability to hear normal conversation and good near and peripheral vision.

Nice To Haves

• Minimum 1-2 years of demonstrated customer service excellence in a contact center preferred
• Previous healthcare experience with medical terminology preferred
• Previous experience with electronic medical record (EMR) preferred
• Ability to work from home in accordance with the Network Work from Home Policy if needed.

Responsibilities

• Answers incoming calls and performs a variety of actions including scheduling, rescheduling, or canceling appointments within established time frames and protocols in a fast paced, high volume Access Center environment.
• Determines how requests should be handled using expert questioning techniques to determine how a request should be scheduled, when to refer a call to a specific clinic or escalate the call to a nurse for immediate attention; coordinates services, as needed.
• Verifies and updates patient demographic and insurance information.
• Creates a positive patient experience at every encounter, attempting to resolve any issues or concerns of the patient at the time of the phone call, within the scope of the role.
• Manages and works referral work queues when assigned and provides supplemental inbound patient call support during high volume times using (and vice versa), and uses judgment to prioritize and accommodate patients, based on patient needs.
• Actively participates as a team member in resolution of problems as they are identified.
• Escalates any scheduling or insurance issue to the Patient Engagement Supervisor or Patient Engagement Manager to resolve.
• Consistently meets productivity, schedule adherence, and quality standards as set by the Access Center.
• Works with designated clinical partners to establish and maintain appropriate appointment scheduling protocols.
• Consistently acts to build positive relationships with our clinical partners.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• St. Luke's is the ONLY health care institution in the Lehigh Valley to be named a Top Workplace regionally repeating the exclusive honor for the third year in a row.
• For the third straight year, St. Luke’s has been a Top Workplaces in the Philadelphia Region by the Philadelphia Inquirer, ranking 9th in the large employer category for 2025 and the only health care system in PA to receive this award.
• In 2025, St. Luke’s was recognized as a national Top Workplaces by USA Today, three years in a row, including the 3rd best health care system in the nation in 2023 and 2024.
• Lastly, in 2025, St. Luke’s was named a Top Workplace in New Jersey for the third year in a row.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED