Call Center Representative - Switchboard

Call Center Representative (Switchboard)Bell Hospital

Position Summary / Career Interest:

The call center representative is a frontline resource for our patients, staff and physicians. The call center 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 and Essential Job Functions

• 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.
• 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.

Required Education and Experience

• High School Graduate
• 2 or more years of experience in call center-based customer service, health care call center or Emergency Dispatch Call Center.
• Experience talking, typing and listening simultaneously in a customer service environment.
• Experience utilizing Call Center Software to answer, transfer, page and email in a customer service environment.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Associates Degree in Communications, Business or Health Care Administration from an accredited college or university.

Knowledge Requirements

• Exceptional communication and phone skills.
• Ability to handle multiple calls and/or tasks while providing excellent customer service.

Time Type:

Job Requisition ID:

R-48240

Important information for you to know as you apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer.  Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.  See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link [email protected].

• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.

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