Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.
The Perioperative Services Scheduler receives and enters provider requests accurately and efficiently. They clearly communicate information to perioperative services staff as required to ensure the integrity of the surgery schedule. This function is the beginning of patient care and critically impacts surgeons, anesthesia, staff and most importantly the patients.
Required Behaviors:
- As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
- As a member of peri-operative services you should seek to anticipate the needs of our surgeons, patients, anesthesia providers and peers. Thoughtful anticipation is the key attitude you should strive to achieve in all your interactions. You should use this value to create a positive, helpful and supportive environment for our patients to receive care.
Required Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Fluent in English
- PC literate
- Ability to handle stressful situations
- Ability to meet physical demands as stated in - “Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions” at the end of this purpose description
Preferred Qualifications:
- Medical Terminology
- BLS Certification
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Receive information via fax, electronic file or phone and input to computer so all critical information is transmitted and communicated correctly helping to ensure best possible patient outcome
- Work with office staff to ensure accurate information is provided in the most effective manner when scheduling cases
- Provide procedure time information to the OR Supervisor, team leads and others requiring scheduling information
- Work with Pre-Anesthesia Screening Services Staff to schedule appointments
- Maintain scheduling strips on the “Schedule Board” to ensure all information is accurate
- Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:
Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:
- All Peri-Operative Services jobs may place heavy physical demands on the employee. The amount of time that the employee is exposed to these demands will fluctuate, as there are uncontrollable variables inherent in healthcare i.e.; patient’s height and weight, patient’s level of cooperation and strength, specific clinical needs, etc.
Physical Activities:
- All Peri-Operative Services jobs may require lifting/pushing/pulling varying weights, (may exceed two hundred 200 pounds)
- Activities may include intermittent or prolonged: standing, walking, sitting, talking, pushing, pulling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and reaching with arms
- Repetitive motions may also be required, such as: wrist/hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity (as in typing, writing, faxing, filing papers, etc.)
Work Environment:
- The job requires the risk of exposure to the following environmental conditions: hazardous chemicals, anesthetic agents, body fluids and waste, blood borne diseases, infectious and contagious diseases, risk of electrical/mechanical shock, risk of burns and cuts
- Exposure to unpleasant patient or unit elements, (i.e. accidents, injuries and severe illnesses)
- The noise level may vary from very quiet to very loud
Sensory Requirements:
The employee will need to be able to hear:
- Alarms on equipment, fire alarms, and overhead announcements
- Patient/family verbal discussions
- Instructions and feedback from other healthcare providers
The employee will need to be able to see:
- Focus on close-up and distant objects
- Distinguish colors
- Have intact: peripheral vision and depth perception
