Hybrid Complex Scheduler - Care Coordination

Fairview Health Services; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & vision plans

Retirement plan

Job summary

Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis, MN seeks a Complex Scheduler to coordinate appointments, imaging, labs, procedures, and surgeries across multiple departments and locations. You will collaborate with providers, schedulers, and care teams to ensure timely sequencing and completion of services.

The role requires strong communication, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining patient-centered service.

Qualifications

• 2 years experience in a healthcare setting/practice.
• 1 year completing scheduling and registration of appointments.
• 1 year practicing good public relations, customer service, time management, prioritization, and patient communication skills.
• 1 year proficient use of computer keyboarding and Microsoft office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams)

Responsibilities

• Pre & Post-Appointment Support.
• Serves as a single point of contact for coordinating appointments, procedures/surgeries, labs, imaging, or treatments.
• Accurately navigates and translates complex service protocols, tools, standard work, and information to ensure appropriate services are delivered.
• Provides patients/caregivers with information and updates.
• Maintains awareness of multiple competing situations needing attention and prioritizes to assure patient needs are met, while maintaining a pleasant, friendly demeanor.
• Monitors, manage, and schedules/reschedules appointments from work queues or messages.
• Identify potential issues that could complicate care (i.e. insurance issues, adherence concerns).
• Customer Service
• Collaborate with patients, caregivers, providers, schedulers, and other care team members to ensure:Appointments, labs, imaging are prioritized and sequenced appropriately.
• Patient has followed through on their labs, imaging, and appointments.
• Medical records (results, office notes, etc) are received on time and available to the provider/care team.
• Prior authorization is completed, if needed.
• Appointments, labs, imaging are prioritized and sequenced appropriately.
• Effectively communicates with customers (patients, caregivers, providers, care team members, outside health systems) in a professional and respectful manner.
• Deliver a consistently high level of service and goes above and beyond to assist customers.
• Provides patients with correct information related to their scheduled appointments, procedures, or tests, and in response to any associated questions they might have.
• Partners with customers to resolve questions, and concerns.
• Follows standard processes and workflows to ensure safety and reliability.
• Communicates information and updates to providers, employees, and departments as appropriate.
• Prepares schedules for providers
• Prepares, manages, and updates the daily schedule/calendars for physicians who provide care (procedures, surgeries, clinic appointments) at different locations such as outreach clinics, hospitals, procedure centers.
• Apprise physicians of changes or updates related to their schedules.
• Epic in-basket and pool management
• Review and respond to patient messages sent to the Epic in-box or through MyChart.
• Gather and document information to help facilitate communication between the patient/caregiver and care team.
• Ensure messages are addressed within standard timeframes and elevate issues that need prompt attention.
• Communicate information delegated by providers
• Review chart to piece together important information for the patient and provider.
• Organization Expectations, as applicable:
• Demonstrates ability to provide care or service adjusting approaches to reflect developmental level and cultural differences of population served.
• Partners with patient care giver in care/decision making.
• Communicates in a respective manner.
• Ensures a safe, secure environment.
• Individualizes plan of care to meet patient needs.
• Modifies clinical interventions based on population served.
• Provides patient education based on as assessment of learning needs of patient/care giver.
• Fulfills all organizational requirements.
• Completes all required learning relevant to the role.
• Complies with and maintains knowledge of all relevant laws, regulation, policies, procedures and standards.
• Fosters a culture of improvement, efficiency and innovative thinking.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Healthcare experience

Scheduling

Public relations

Time management

Microsoft Office

Education

Healthcare or business-related degree

Tools

Epic Health Records

Job description

Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis, MN seeks a Complex Scheduler to coordinate appointments, imaging, labs, procedures, and surgeries across multiple departments and locations. You will collaborate with providers, schedulers, and care teams to ensure timely sequencing and completion of services.

The role requires strong communication, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining patient-centered service.