Hospital Scheduler

Description

Pulmonary Medicine Associates (PMA) has been treating patients in the greater Sacramento for over 50 years and is a unique and exciting place to work, with specialties that include critical care, infectious disease, palliative care, pulmonology, pediatric pulmonology, sleep medicine, and travel medicine. We are a busy practice with over 70 providers and 2 outpatient clinic locations.

PMA currently has a FT Hospital Scheduler Position available to work at our business office.  Because we value our employees, PMA offers a competitive salary and exceptional benefits for FT employees including medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, PTO, and 401k with generous company match. Please visit our website at www.pmamed.com to learn more. PMA is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.

  Duties Include:

• Prepare complex provider schedules for hospital and outpatient clinic at least 4 months in advance.
• Prepare on-call, Sutter Transfer Center, and eICU schedules, at least 4 months in advance.
• Manage changes to the prepared schedule. 
• Manage physician requests for personal time off. Enter physician vacation and CME time into provider scheduling software, Lightning bolt.
• Enter completed schedules into hospital scheduling programs such as Epic and Amion.
• Ensure schedule changes are communicated to appropriate staff as they occur, including Clinic supervisors, PMA answering service, and hospital staff. 
• Assist with special projects as requested.

Requirements

• High school graduate or GED.
• Minimum of 3 years of related experience preferred.
• Knowledge of medical office and hospital scheduling principles. 
• Ability to manage multiple priorities. 
• Ability to work independently under general administrative direction, to exercise good judgment and accept personal responsibility. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Excellent phone etiquette. 
• Strong customer service skills and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Strong detail orientation and ability to examine documents for accuracy and completeness. 
• Valid California driver’s license and automobile insurance. Ability to drive to different locations when needed. 

Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: 

· Must be able to work in a climate controlled, office environment. 

· Sit for extended periods of time. 

· Ability to read and write in order to process paperwork. 

· Manual dexterity needed for keyboarding and other repetitive office tasks. 

· Vision must be good or corrected to normal to perform normal job duties. 

· Hearing must be good to have the ability to understand information to perform job duties.