Unit Coordinator - BIDMC Med/Surg (32hr, Evenings)

Beth Israel Lahey Health • Boston, MA • 3d ago

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

12 Reisman is a 44 bed inpatient surgical unit caring for Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, ENT Surgery, Breast Surgery, and Colorectal Surgery patients. We pride ourselves in providing the highest level of care possible and a great work environment.

Job Description:

Job Summary: Facilitates the smooth & efficient functioning of the unit. Serves as liaison between patients, visitors, and clinicians. This role is responsible for partnering with nurses to coordinate the day-to-day patient flow, including the communications regarding patient admissions, discharges, and transfers. Provides outstanding service for every customer interaction.

This role is fully onsite at 330 Brookline Ave, and the schedule is Monday through Thursday evenings (3:00 pm - 11:30 pm).

Essential Responsibilities:

Facilitates patient flow through the unit. Coordinates admissions with admitting, nursing staff, and the admission facilitator. Assists providers and ensures the availability of needed supplies. Obtains and communicates information for requested tests and procedures. Coordinates registration process for established protocols.

Answers patient call lights in a timely manner and responds within the scope of the role, following BIDMC Call Light Standards of Practice. Greets and directs patients, families, visitors, and staff. Identifies self and provides informative, non-clinical information when requested by patients, families, staff or visitors.

Utilizes all available information systems that support unit-based operations, such as provider order entry, bed tracking, and nursing call system, as directed, ensuring timeliness of response and accuracy of data input. Serves as a point person for the resolution of IS issues.

Maintains basic competency in troubleshooting printer/copier/fax issues. Ensures patients are properly charged for equipment, supplies, and outside purchases. Coordinates special purchase for patient care needs (e.g. specialty beds). Ensures that all equipment in the unit is adequately maintained. Maintains equipment logs. Performs/monitors activities related to JCAHO.

Manages the unit-based patient value program. Investigates lost belongings, maintains tracking logs, and provides a detailed summary as requested. Reports unresolved losses to the Operations Coordinator.

Required Qualifications:

High School diploma or GED required. Associate's degree preferred.

0-1 years of related work experience required.

Prior customer service experience.

Basic familiarity with computers. Ability to navigate at a basic level within web-based applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

Previous administrative experience in a healthcare setting.

Competencies:

Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are based on specific instructions, standard practices, and established procedures, which generally require little or no supervision.

Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are routine, somewhat repetitive, and generally solved by following clear directions and procedures and by identifying opportunities for process improvements.

Independence of Action: Ability to follow general instructions and procedures as provided. Work is monitored by a supervisor/manager.

Written Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers.

Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families, and external customers.

Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures, and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.

Team Work: Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of the immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.

Customer Service: 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.

Physical Nature of the Job:

Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. The job is physical in nature, and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.

Pay Range:

$20.50 - $27.59

The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

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