Telephone Operator- Every Other Weekend Overnights

Penn Medicine

West Chester, PA

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SKILLS
Administrative Skills, Clinical Support, Communication Skills, Compensation and Benefits, Customer Support/Service, Documentation, Emergency Procedures, Employee Benefits, Hearing Impairment, Medical Records, Medicine, On Call, Pager, Patient Care, Quality of Care, Record Keeping, Research Skills, Staff Training, System Operations, Voice Applications
LOCATION
West Chester, PA
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5 days ago

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Telephone Operator- Every Other Weekend Overnights

Job ID: 329660

Category: Information Services/Technology/Service Desk/Telecom

Work Type: PT -19 HOURS

Location: West Chester, PA, United States

Work Schedule: Every Other Weekend, Sat & Sun. Overnights.

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Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

General Summary Statement

The Telephone Operator is responsible for processing all incoming calls from patients, visitors, clinical administrative and support staff and the general public. The Operator operates the paging systems for authorized personnel over a public address system, emergency voice pagers and display priority pagers. Operator processes emergency procedures, monitoring multiple alarms, utilizes and updates an electronic directory database, web site, and other reference material for effective distribution of information and calls. The Operator assists all callers in a polite, articulate, professional, and clear manner. Ability to search phonetically in a database is required. Responsibilities and tasks can be repetitive and persistent, but must be supported in a courteous manner through the duration of a full shift. Operator must be able to accurately process a high rate of telephone calls over an extended period of time.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Handles busy communications center while providing excellent customer service.
  • Accountable for handling all in-patient information calls. Arranges for in-patient registry as necessary for accuracy.
  • Monitors and responds to codes and alarms immediately and determines the appropriate action.
  • Operates the Intellidesk system, incorporating paging, message retrieval, physician registry and overhead paging.
  • Makes changes to on-call schedules as needed.
  • Responsible for distribution of new/spare/long range pagers, patient room telephones, TTY (Hearing impaired) equipment, batteries, and books on tape for the visually impaired.
  • Accurately and legibly records all pertinent information in the log book and incident book and inform any relieving operator of abnormal or unusual circumstances verbally.
  • Follow standard change-of-shift protocol and documentation.
  • Uses good judgment, prioritizes work orders, and notify the "appropriate" supervisor of any unusual circumstances.
  • Clearly mark all packages, envelopes, newspapers, etc., so that others can determine what action to take.
  • Report all equipment malfunctions immediately or corrects as directed by department policy.
  • Keep the department neat and clean.
  • Adhere to department and CCH standards in all areas including confidentiality and security
  • Required to attend quarterly staff meetings.
  • Train new employees and contribute feed back to the Director or Lead Operator

Education Training and Experience/Skills· High school graduate or GED preferred but not required · Computer and Keyboarding skills required · A minimum of two years previous customer service experience requiredMultiple phone line experience preferred.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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