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The University of Kansas Health System

Academic medical center with trauma care

Call Center Shift Supervisor

Clinical Support & Patient AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKansas City, KS, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A high school diploma or GED is required.
  • At least 2 years of supervisory experience in a call center, switchboard call center, or dispatch environment is required.
  • Experience interacting and communicating with a diverse population using sensitivity, tact, and discretion is required.
  • Excellent typing, grammar, and spelling skills are required.
  • Ability to coordinate activities or tasks of people and groups is required.
  • Strong computer skills are required.
  • Excellent customer service skills are required.

Responsibilities

  • Provide safe and efficient service for each patient, locate appropriate physicians or services for callers, facilitate connections, operate the overhead paging system, page physicians as needed, and answer calls for hospital departments and physician practices.
  • Provide daily supervision of call center employees, encourage customer-service-focused work, and demonstrate good public relations for internal and external customers.
  • Manage staff performance of responsibilities and tasks to help the call center achieve service-level goals for abandonment rate, hold time, wait time, and customer service.
  • Prepare and reconcile daily, weekly, and monthly reports, including shift statistics, emergency code activation logs, representative statistics, EBS reports, backup emergency code activation logs, on-call change logs, call quality, operator log-in/log-out reports, and shift reports; ensure work is documented correctly.
  • Provide additional phone coverage using Infinity IS, Communicator, and ONCALL, and respond professionally to internal and external callers.
  • Oversee medical and security-related emergency code activations and act as backup; help ensure protocols are followed and perform routine clerical functions such as status changes, call schedule changes, and system updates.
  • Manage a core group of team members, conduct biweekly meetings, monitor each staff member's calls weekly, provide monthly call-monitoring quality scores, document results, manage time-off requests and overtime requirements, and coach staff to meet minimum call-monitoring guidelines in coordination with the Call Center Manager.
  • Attend weekly meetings with the Call Center Manager, monthly Call Center leadership meetings, and quarterly operational, computer, and customer-service training sessions; provide daily in-service meetings to staff or delegate them; maintain office manuals and notebooks; and conduct monthly shift meetings to support continuity and operations.
  • Oversee medical-related code tests on software systems and ensure paging hardware and software are functioning; use all switchboard software and hardware systems.
  • Provide initial, ongoing, and cross-training to employees, assess their knowledge, ensure they understand job expectations, assist the Call Center trainer, report issues to the Call Center Manager, and explain departmental procedures and medical-center organization to new team members.
  • Perform routine backup functions to maintain data integrity and identify and report equipment problems to a supervisor.
  • Report traffic patterns and recommend ways to improve operating efficiency.
  • Interview and screen applicants and make recommendations with appropriate justification.
  • Track attendance, performance, and conduct issues for core team members; complete annual performance reviews and corrective actions.
  • Work with Human Resources to determine disciplinary actions and prepare and present disciplinary CAF forms when necessary, involving the Call Center Manager as needed.
  • Manage call queues, direct the Call Center Lead, and accept escalated calls.
  • Manage downtime processes for computer, software, phone, or paging outages.
  • Perform the professional, clinical, or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

  • An associate degree in a related field of study from an accredited college or university is preferred.

About the Company

The University of Kansas Health System

Academic medical center with trauma care

What does this company do? - The University of Kansas Health System is a non-profit academic medical center that provides a wide range of healthcare services across Kansas and the surrounding region, including primary care, specialized treatments, and a large physician practice in more than 200 specialties. It operates multiple locations (Kansas City, Topeka, Great Bend, Lawrence) and serves as a major regional provider. It also engages in research and education as part of its academic medical center role. How does this company's product(s) work? - Its main

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Kansas City, KS
Founded
1998

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