Patient Experience Lead

UVM Health - UVM Medical Center; Burlington (VT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

UVM Health - UVM Medical Center is seeking a Patient Experience Lead to oversee Ambassadors, Circle Entrance Assistants, Welcoming Specialists, and Volunteers. You will ensure staffing, workflow, and service standards across patient-facing areas, acting as the frontline operational lead.

The role focuses on coaching staff, resolving issues in real time, and maintaining a culture of service excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Two to three years of experience in customer service in a healthcare setting or other customer-focused environment.
• Ability to diffuse agitated customers/patients and handle stressful situations.
• Must present oneself in a professional manner and exhibit excellent verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with communities or populations experiencing barriers to health care access beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience dealing effectively and compassionately with sensitive situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership, direction, and operational oversight for Ambassadors, ACC Circle Entrance Assistants, Welcoming Specialists, and Volunteers.
• Ensure appropriate staffing, workflow management, service coverage, and consistent execution of service standards across patient-facing areas.
• Serve as primary day-to-day resource for staff and volunteers, providing operational direction, coaching, mentoring, and problem resolution.
• Prioritize work activities, adjust staffing assignments to meet operational needs, address service concerns in real time.
• Lead onboarding, training, orientation, and ongoing staff and volunteer development.
• Identify opportunities to enhance processes, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen the patient experience.

Skills

Customer service

Verbal communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Professionalism

Empathy

Community health access

Compassionate handling of sensitive 상황

Education

Associate's degree preferred

Job description

Job Description

The Patient Experience Lead provides day-to-day leadership, direction, and operational oversight for Ambassadors, ACC Circle Entrance Assistants, Welcoming Specialists, and Volunteers. Serving as the frontline operational lead, this position is responsible for ensuring appropriate staffing, workflow management, service coverage, and consistent execution of service standards across patient-facing areas.

Job Description

The Patient Experience Lead provides day-to-day leadership, direction, and operational oversight for Ambassadors, ACC Circle Entrance Assistants, Welcoming Specialists, and Volunteers. Serving as the frontline operational lead, this position is responsible for ensuring appropriate staffing, workflow management, service coverage, and consistent execution of service standards across patient-facing areas.

The Patient Experience Lead serves as the primary day-to-day resource for staff and volunteers, providing operational direction, coaching, mentoring, and problem resolution. The role prioritizes work activities, adjusts staffing assignments to meet operational needs, addresses service concerns in real time, and serves as the first point of contact for workflow, staffing, and operational issues.

This position provides leadership for onboarding, training, orientation, and ongoing staff and volunteer development. Working closely with operational partners, the Patient Experience Lead supports staff performance, reinforces accountability to service standards, and promotes a culture of service excellence, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

The Patient Experience Lead provides real-time operational oversight, monitors workflow and staffing needs, reallocates resources as appropriate, and resolves operational issues to maintain efficient and effective service delivery. The incumbent delivers ongoing coaching, mentorship, and performance feedback to staff and volunteers, while partnering with leadership to address performance concerns and support professional development.

The Patient Experience Lead proactively identifies opportunities to enhance processes, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen the patient, family, visitor, and staff experience. In the absence of the Patient Experience Manager, the incumbent assumes delegated operational responsibility to ensure continuity of services and successful execution of departmental priorities.

Education

Associate's degree preferred or relevant work experience.

Experience

• Requires two to three years of experience in customer service in a healthcare setting or other customer-focused environment.
• Requires ability to diffuse agitated customers/patients and handle stressful situations.
• Must present oneself in a professional manner and exhibit excellent verbal communication skills.
• Experience working with communities or populations experiencing barriers to health care access beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience dealing effectively and compassionately with sensitive situations.