Perioperative Practice Assistant (Weekend Onsite)

MGB Anesthesiology; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 50,696,000 - 71,497,000; Part time

Job summary

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is seeking a Perioperative Services Practice Assistant to support OR operations on a 24-hour weekend schedule. You will greet patients, manage admissions, and coordinate with nursing and surgical teams.

You will update EPIC records, prepare schedules, and assist with language interpretation and patient transport. The role requires strong communication, reliability, and the ability to work across multiple perioperative areas.

Qualifications

• High school diploma; partial college preferred.
• Customer service and secretarial experience in a hospital setting.
• Bilingual desirable.

Responsibilities

• Greet patients and families, collect admission info, identify patients, assign armbands and determine NPO status.
• Notify nurses of arrivals and admissions for pre-op and PACU.
• Assign patients to beds per plan, update schedules, and inform relevant staff.
• Log patients in Epic for event times and LOS; correct patient data as needed.
• Prepare patient schedules for front desk, preop, and PACU; update OR times.
• Maintain valuables, transport status and discharge info for day surgery.
• Provide updates to families; liaise between patient, family and surgical team.
• Review charts for abnormal flags in preop area with Epic notes.
• Maintain and update MD service lists and OR-related contacts.
• Answer multiline calls; relay preop instructions and schedule confirmations.
• Arrange language interpretation for patients and families.
• Maintain supply par levels for unit equipment and forms.
• Coordinate with Clinical Engineering for equipment status and repairs.
• Document QA activities as needed.
• Arrange or assist transportation of patients between areas.
• Float to other areas and perform essential secretarial duties as needed.
• Run EPIC reports for out-of-OR patients and next-day reminders.
• Escort out-of-OR patients to appointment areas.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Customer service

Language interpretation

Data entry

Prioritization

Confidentiality

Physical strength

Computer literacy

Education

High school diploma

Tools

Epic EMR

Job description

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is seeking a Perioperative Services Practice Assistant to support OR operations on a 24-hour weekend schedule. You will greet patients, manage admissions, and coordinate with nursing and surgical teams.

You will update EPIC records, prepare schedules, and assist with language interpretation and patient transport. The role requires strong communication, reliability, and the ability to work across multiple perioperative areas.