Locum Staffing Scheduler

Jackson & Coker Locumtenens; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Premier Anesthesia, part of the Jackson Healthcare family, seeks a Locum Staffing Scheduler to coordinate provider schedules for locum and transition staffing needs across facilities. The role interfaces with recruiters, operations leadership, credentialing, travel, payroll, invoicing, and agency partners to ensure timely, compliant coverage.

You will translate approved staffing needs into accurate schedules, communicate changes, identify coverage risks, and maintain reliable scheduling records

Qualifications

• Ability to translate staffing needs into accurate schedules.
• Strong communication with recruiters, operations, and providers.
• Experience coordinating coverage across multiple facilities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Locum Recruiting, Operations, and onsite leadership to understand staffing plans.
• Maintain provider availability and scheduling records in scheduling/CRM systems.
• Build and maintain schedules that meet provider qualifications and client requirements.
• Confirm assignments and distribute schedules on time.
• Monitor for gaps or conflicts and resolve routine issues.
• Coordinate schedule changes, cancellations and urgent coverage with stakeholders.
• Support cross-facility coverage and roster management.
• Maintain communications with temporary clinicians regarding shifts and onboarding.

Skills

Scheduling

Communication

Coordination

CRM systems

Tools

Scheduling tools

Job description

Overview

For over 22 years, Premier Anesthesia has been a highly trusted anesthesia practice management partner for healthcare organizations nationwide. With a wealth of knowledge and skill in hospital-based anesthesia practices, they focus on developing and managing anesthesia services tailored to the needs of their clients, medical staff and communities. From recruitment to efficient management, Premier Anesthesia is dedicated to ensuring optimal patient and client outcomes.

Premier Anesthesia is a national anesthesia management company solely focused on building and managing the best anesthesia teams in the industry. The organization's leadership brings extensive experience in hospital-based physician staffing, recruiting and management. Premier Anesthesia is part of the award-winning Jackson Healthcare® family of companies.

The Locum Staffing Scheduler coordinates provider schedules and coverage for Premier Anesthesia's locum and transition staffing needs. Working within the Locum Recruiting organization, this role serves as a key link among recruiters, Operations leaders, onsite clinical leadership, Credentialing, Travel, Payroll, Invoicing, agency partners, and anesthesia providers. The scheduler translates approved staffing needs and provider availability into accurate, timely schedules; communicates changes; identifies coverage risks; and maintains reliable scheduling records that support safe, consistent facility operations and a positive provider experience.

Essential Responsibilities

Scheduling and Coverage Coordination

Partner with Locum Recruiting, Operations leaders, and onsite clinical leadership to understand facility-specific staffing plans, open shifts, skill mix, call requirements, scheduling rules, and priority coverage needs.

Collect, document, and maintain provider availability, assignment preferences, restrictions, available-to-schedule dates, and confirmed commitments in designated scheduling and CRM systems.

Build and maintain provider schedules for assigned facilities, ensuring assignments align with approved requests, provider qualifications communicated by the appropriate clinical or credentialing teams, contractual parameters, and facility requirements.

Confirm assignments with providers and appropriate internal or facility leaders, and distribute schedules according to established timelines and communication standards.

Monitor schedules for gaps, conflicts, duplicate assignments, incomplete information, and changes that could affect coverage; resolve routine issues and elevate

Coordinate schedule changes, cancellations, replacements, call-outs, and urgent coverage requests with recruiters, Operations leaders, onsite clinical leadership, providers, and agency partners.

Support cross-facility coverage coordination and provider redeployment when business needs and approved assignment parameters allow.

Maintain active ownership of communications with temporary clinicians to fill schedule gaps, including shift confirmations, privilege delays, onboarding coordination, and creation of CDLs.

Clinician Readiness and Relationship Management

Partner with Credentialing and onboarding teams to monitor assignment readiness and avoid scheduling or

Use a consultative approach to remove barriers, identify solutions, and support customer staffing goals and objectives.

Vendor, Roster, and Cost Management

Manage third-party staffing vendor relationships and coordinate agency support for approved coverage needs.

Support temporary labor sourcing and qualification review in partnership with the appropriate recruiting, clinical, and credentialing teams.

Partner with field Operations to manage and reduce temporary labor costs while maintaining approved coverage requirements.

Forecast, evaluate, and manage the clinician roster and bench, including maintaining an active roster aligned with established staffing ratios.

Maintain accurate available-to-schedule dates for managed clinicians and evaluate W-2 contractual shift obligations monthly.

Documentation, Payroll, and Reporting

Maintain accurate documentation of shift details, locations, dates, times, call expectations, confirmations, cancellations, and change history.

Provide complete and timely scheduling information to Travel, Payroll, Invoicing, and