Position Title

Call Center Representative - Switchboard

Bell Hospital

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Position Summary / Career Interest:

The call center representative is a frontline resource for our patients, staff and physicians. The representative provides professional customer service to all callers in a 24/7/365 call center environment. This position is in our Switchboard call center located on our main campus.

Responsibilities:

• Assists with operations of the Switchboard call center for the University of Kansas Health System and Medical Center.
• The rep utilizes all software systems (Genesis, Communicator, OnCall, Epic to provide professional service to all callers, internal and external.
• Triages incoming calls to determine caller needs and manage the callers’ expectations with the highest level of customer service and efficiency by utilizing all available software resources.
• Provides answering service for clinical and administrative departments
• Provides code and personal pager management and pager programming after hours, weekends and holidays.
• Activates medical code tests on all software systems, ensuring paging hardware and software systems are functioning.
• Activates medical and security code teams
• Initiates non urgent text pages to administrative and clinical staff
• Maintains the on call schedules in the web on call system and Qgenda; makes changes to the schedules after hours as needed; documents changes and sends communication to hospital, physicians and university departments as needed.
• Utilizes internal overhead paging system
• Attend all individual, department and health system meetings, training and reviews as needed.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• Note: These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Required:

• High School Diploma
• Minimum 2 years' experience in call center based customer service, health care call center, or Emergency Dispatch Call Center
• Exceptional communication and phone skills. Ability to handle multiple calls and/or tasks while providing excellent customer service.
• Experience talking, typing and listening simultaneously.
• Experience utilizing Call Center Software to answer, transfer, page and email.

Preferred:

• Associates or Bachelors Degree in communications, business or health care administration.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Requisition ID:

R-262

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age (40 or older), disability, veteran status or genetic information.

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