Scheduler

 Surgery Scheduler Full Time

USPI New Mexico Surgery Center Multispecialty Downtown, is hiring a Surgery Scheduler Full Time.

USPI New Mexico Surgery Center Multispecialty Downtown is a fast paced ASC environment committed to producing the highest quality work and experience for patients and their families. 

Job Summary:

• Schedules all surgical procedures, including overall coordination of schedule.
• Obtains and enters all necessary information from surgeon or scheduler requesting OR time.
• Works with Administrator, Nurse managers and other center leaders to manage block time.
• Allows adequate time for each procedure including individual physician requests, room turnover.
• Identify solutions that improve scheduling efficiency and practice. 
• Communicates with OR leadership team regarding scheduling issues.  Keeps OR team informed of changes affecting the schedule.
• Communicates special equipment, instruments, and supply requests to the OR leadership team.
• Communicates with physician offices to confirm cases, identify special needs, and determine any changes that should take place.
• Communicates with physician offices to proactively manage block time, including identifying scheduling issues before they occur.
• Keeps physician offices informed of any center changes.
• Participates on center projects, programs and activities as appropriate.
• Focuses on overall center efficiency, including maximizing block time, identifying efficiencies to facilitate patient care, minimizing down time of rooms between cases.
• Looks for ways to overcome obstacles to appropriately schedule cases.
• Proactively assists physician offices by training new physician office schedulers, including visiting physician office, center tours and other tasks as required

What We Offer

As a valued member of USPI, your health and well‑being are important to us. We are proud to provide you and your dependents with valuable and significant benefits. USPI knows the value of well-rounded, balanced employees, which is why we offer a variety of additional benefits to help manage life’s daily stresses. USPI offers the following benefits, subject to employment status:

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Paid time off (vacation & sick leave)
• 401k retirement plan
• Paid holidays
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance Program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long-term care, elder & childcare, AD&D, auto & home insurance

Who We Are

At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and health care systems to provide first class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.

USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.

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Qualifications:

Schedules all surgical procedures, including overall coordination of schedule.

Obtains and enters all necessary information from surgeon or scheduler requesting OR time.

Works with Administrator, Nurse managers and other center leaders to manage block time.

Allows adequate time for each procedure including individual physician requests, room turnover.

Identify solutions that improve scheduling efficiency and practice. 

Communicates with OR leadership team regarding scheduling issues.  Keeps OR team informed of changes affecting the schedule.

Communicates special equipment, instruments, and supply requests to the OR leadership team.

Communicates with physician offices to confirm cases, identify special needs, and determine any changes that should take place.

Communicates with physician offices to proactively manage block time, including identifying scheduling issues before they occur.

Keeps physician offices informed of any center changes.

Participates on center projects, programs and activities as appropriate.

Focuses on overall center efficiency, including maximizing block time, identifying efficiencies to facilitate patient care, minimizing down time of rooms between cases.

Looks for ways to overcome obstacles to appropriately schedule cases.

Proactively assists physician offices by training new physician office schedulers, including visiting physician office, center tours and other tasks as required.

Qualifications:

• High School education and/or equivalent.
• Ability to read, write and comprehend English.
• 2+ years of experience in a clinical environment preferred,
• 2-3 years scheduling experience preferred.
• Shall have demonstrated computer skills.
• Excellent telephone and communication etiquette, including listening skills