Centralized Scheduling Coordinator | Full Time

Singing River Healthcare Academy; Pascagoula, Northern (MS, KY); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Singing River Health System is seeking a Centralized Scheduling Coordinator to ensure optimal staffing across its Gulfport, Ocean Springs, and Pascagoula locations. The role emphasizes data-driven decisions, real-time adjustments, and collaboration with clinical leads to maintain high-quality patient care.

Ideal candidates will have an associate degree, healthcare scheduling experience, and de-escalation training.

Qualifications

• Associate degree required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Must have de-escalation training completed within 90 days of orientation.
• At least 1 year experience in staffing/scheduling; healthcare setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate staffing coverage across multiple clinical locations.
• Leverage data sources and scheduling tools to optimize assignments.
• Address staffing gaps with real-time decision-making for safe patient care.
• Collaborate with nursing leaders and administrators to balance priorities.

Skills

Staffing software

Healthcare scheduling

De-escalation training

Customer service

Education

Associate degree

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

MS Outlook

MS Word

Job description

## Centralized Scheduling Coordinator | Full TimeApply: Ocean Springs, MS: Pascagoula, MS: Gulfport, MS: Full time: Posted Today: JR102312**At Singing River Health System, caring isn’t just part of the job — it’s in our DNA. Whether we’re saving lives, supporting behind the scenes, or showing up for our community, we bring the energy, heart, and hustle every single day.****With pride, passion, and commitment, we will improve health and save lives in our community every day.****Shift:**Monday-Friday, 8:00AM-4:30PM**Location:**Singing River Gulfport Hospital, Singing River Ocean Springs Hospital, Singing River Pascagoula Hospital# **Job Description Summary**# **Job Description****Position Overview:** The Centralized Scheduling Coordinator plays a key role within the Centralized Scheduling Office, ensuring appropriate staffing coverage across multiple clinical locations within Singing River Health System. This position requires strong coordination, critical thinking, and real-time-decision-making skills to effectively address staffing gaps across clinical departments. The Centralized Scheduling Coordinator will leverage multiple complex data sources and workforce management tools to optimize staffing assignments, ensuring the right coverage is in place to support safe, high quality patient care.**DISCLAIMER:** This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this intends to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks performed as assigned.**Education:** Associate degree in business, data management, healthcare or related field required. Bachelor's degree preferred.**License:** N/A**Certifications:** N/A Must have de-escalation training completed by the end of position orientation (90 days); must have appropriate level of de-escalation training.**Experience:** At least one year's experience in staffing/scheduling software preferred. Previous experience in healthcare required. Clinical background (e.g. RN, LPN, RT) preferred but not required.**Reports to:** Centralized Scheduling and Float Pool Director**Supervises:** None**Physical Demands:** Work is moderately active: involves sitting with frequent requirements to move about the office, move about the facility, and to travel to another facility within the SRHS service area. Work involves exerting a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.Work involves using many physical motions in performing daily work activities; subject to exposure of body fluids, sputum and tissues, which may carry the hazard of infectious disease. Work involves using repetitive motions: substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and or fingers while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard.Work involves being able to perceive the nature of sound at normal speaking levels with or without correction; the ability to make fine discriminations in sound. Work requires close visual and acuity and the ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus, i.e. shift gaze from viewing a computer monitor to forms/printed material that are closer to compare data at close vision.Must be able to be active for extended periods of time without experiencing undue fatigue. Must be able to work schedules assigned with the understanding that changes may be instituted according to the needs of the hospital for off days, shifts or weekends.**Mental Demands:** Must demonstrate keen mental faculties/assessment and decision making abilities. Must demonstrate superior communication/speaking/enunciation skills to receive and give information in person and by telephone. Must demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills. Must possess emotional stability conducive to dealing with high stress levels. Must demonstrate ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines. Attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in complex situations is required. Must have the ability to maintain collaborative and respectable working relationships throughout SRHS and other organizations.**Special Demands:** Must possess superior customer service skills and professional etiquette. Must possess proficient knowledge and ability to use a computer (must be keyboard proficient) and other office technology (i.e., telephone, fax, etc.), MS Outlook and Word.This position is primarily office-based with potential for remote with frequent interaction with nursing leaders, clinical staff and administrators across the health system, the role requires the ability to manage competing priorities in a high-demand environment.May require some holiday and/or weekend support when applicable.**If you’re looking for purpose, teamwork, and a place where what you do truly matters, you’ve found it. Let’s do big things together. Apply now and join our team.**