Job Description
Coordinates the staff and daily operations for scheduling of patient surgeries or procedures. Ensures effective utilization of resources in the scheduling of all surgical procedures.
Job Responsibility
- Prioritizes, schedules, assigns, and monitors work to optimize operational service.
- Reviews, recommends, implements, and monitors approved work-flow changes.
- Collaborates with hospital departments, offices, and surgical physicians to facilitate efficient scheduling of surgical procedures.
- Handles complex scheduling issues; recognizes and resolves errors, as necessary.
- Reviews scheduled surgeries or procedures with management and nursing personnel prior to the production of final operating room or procedural area schedule for next business day.
- Ensures effective communication of actual and potential schedule changes to admissions, operating room, and recovery room areas.
- Ensures adequate inventory of supplies.
- Handle administrative duties, answer phones and order supplies for the unit as required. Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.
Job Qualification
- Associate's Degree required, or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
- General medical office and GI experience preferably but not necessary
- 3-5 years of relevant experience, required.
*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).
Skills Required
- Associate's degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience
- 3-5 years of relevant experience
- General medical office and GI experience
What We Do
Northwell Health is New York’s largest private employer and health care provider, with 23 hospitals and nearly 800 outpatient facilities. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 74,000+ employees – 18,500+ nurses and 14,200+ credentialed physicians, including about 4,500 employed doctors and nearly 3,300 members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu. Interested in a career at Northwell Health?
