Surgery Scheduler

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• Schedules all surgical, gastroenterological (GI), and pain-management procedures and preoperative appointments
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• Has good knowledge and understanding of the surgery schedule and the format utilized by the center
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• Coordinates and schedules surgeries
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• Ensures that the needed documentation is obtained from all patients
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• Ensures that all patients receive needed information prior to surgery
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• Interacts with patients, physicians and other staff both within the ASC and at the Physician practice
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• Works effectively with the Physician practice to manage the surgery schedule
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• Provides accurate, timely and responsive information to patients, Physicians and other stake holders
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• Coordinates processes and route all paperwork as required to meet physician and facility requirements
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• Ensures efficient telephone communication
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• Follows all written protocols and procedures of the ASC
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• Updates and distributes the surgery schedule as needed
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• Makes appointment reminder calls to patients as requested
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• Answers questions and provide information to patients as it relates to surgery scheduling and documentation
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• Requests patient records as required by the Physician
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• Verbally delivers instructions to patients and families
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• Performs all job functions in a HIPAA compliant manner
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• Collects payments and deductibles as directed
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• Processes payments in accordance with the ASC’s
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• Demonstrates courtesy and helpfulness toward patients and their families
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• Attends all required education
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• Regular and predictable attendance
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• Performs other duties as assigned

Cognitive Skills

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• Exhibit mental alertness for quality decision making and exercising good judgment
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• Ability to multi-task effectively, efficiently, accurately, and with attention to details
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• Ability to recognize/define problems, collect data/facts, draw valid conclusions, and correct errors
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• Ability to interpret instructions in a variety of forms and deal with abstract and concrete variables

Communication

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• Ability to effectively communicate patient care needs and significant information to healthcare team to
• promote continuity of patient care
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• Ability to respond to questions and professionally interact verbally and/or written with managers, co-workers,
• patients, and the general public

Teamwork

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• Work well with others – be a team member
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• Report observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure non-compliance to Safety Officer
• or other designated person, following the Chain of Command
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• Participate in staff meetings, in-services, and continuing education as required

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions,
• decimals, and percentages

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Ability to understand, read, write, and speak English, if bilingual Center, bilingual language is required. Ability to read,
• analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental
• regulations. Ability to successfully write business correspondence. Ability to effectively present information,
• respond to questions, and professionally interact with healthcare team, clients, vendors, and the general public.

REASONING ABILITY

• Demonstrates an ability to recognize and define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and
• correct errors. Ability to understand and interpret basic financial data. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions
• in a variety of forms and deal with abstract and concrete variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

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• Ability to stand and walk for 6-8 hours per day
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• Ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects up to 50 pounds in weight
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• Ability to use abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously without
• "giving out” or fatiguing
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• Ability to perform physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole
• body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.
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• Ability to position or transport patients, prepare medical procedure rooms, or set up patient care equipment
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• Ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position
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• Ability to keep or regain your body balance and stay upright
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• Ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath
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• Ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears
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• Specific vision abilities for close and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to
• adjust focus

WORK ENVIRONMENT

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• Days and hours of work may vary to meet patient needs
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• The Center is a well-lit, ventilated and climate controlled environment. The Center may require decreased lighting to
• meet patient care needs, such as laser rooms and some OR/Procedure rooms
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• Staff will work with medical and office equipment, some of which will have moving parts
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• Noise level is usually quiet to moderate
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• Staff may have exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids and materials or toxic chemicals and
• cleaning solutions
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• The Center procedure rooms are often small, and due to equipment may have little room to work around and may
• necessitate reaching, pulling, pushing
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• Staff will work in close proximity to patients and co-workers