Scheduling Customer Service Representative

National Jewish Health; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 28,502 - 37,691; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Paid Time Off

Dental & Vision Plans

401(k) Plan

Wellness Incentives

Tuition Reimbursement

Child Care Assistance

PSLF

Disability & Life Insurance

Voluntary Benefits

Exclusive Discounts

Job summary

National Jewish Health is seeking Scheduling Customer Service Representatives to join the Patient Admission Call Center. The role involves answering calls, scheduling physician and ancillary appointments, and updating patient information to ensure a smooth patient journey.

Ideal candidates have a customer-service background, attention to detail, adaptiveness, and compassionate service. The position emphasizes teamwork with clinic staff and adherence to department policies.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent is required.
• Work Experience: One year of customer service experience is required; one year of patient scheduling or health care call center experience preferred.
• Special Training: Bilingual Spanish speaking candidates are highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Answers incoming calls and makes outbound calls to schedule appointments for physicians and ancillary services.
• Maintains communication with patients and clinical staff to ensure a successful patient experience.
• Collects and updates patient demographic, insurance, and clinical information.
• Updates computer systems with patient information and appointment details.
• Ensures clinics have accurate patient information regarding the nature, severity, and duration of concerns.
• Communicates with Admissions, Financial Counseling and Utilization Management when necessary.
• Communicates with clinicians to ensure appointments are accurately scheduled.

Skills

Customer service

Scheduling

Phone etiquette

Detail orientation

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Scheduling Customer Service Representative

• Facility *National Jewish Health - Main Campus
• Department Patient Admission Call Center
• Schedule - Shift - Hours Part Time - Day Shift

Some call it a career. For us, it's a calling.

National Jewish Health is currently seeking Scheduling Customer Service Representatives to join our dedicated team of qualified Patient Access professionals. Non-sectarian National Jewish Health is the leading respiratory hospital in the United States. It is known worldwide for the treatment of patients with respiratory, cardiac, immune and related disorders, and for groundbreaking medical research.

This position will have a high level of impact on the institution as the first point of contact on each patient's journey to the world-class health care experience that only National Jewish Health can provide. Our Scheduling Customer Service Representatives collaborate with clinic staff and other health professionals to provide outstanding patient-centered care.

The candidate selected for this role will thrive working in a fast-paced, fun environment with a focus on detail and quality, and will be passionate about customer service with kindness and compassion. The ideal candidate will bring a strong customer focus, adaptability, quality orientation, and ability to independently problem solve.

Position Summary

The Scheduling Customer Service Representative is responsible for answering incoming calls and making outbound calls to schedule appointments for physician and ancillary services. Maintains communication with both patients and clinical staff to ensure a successful patient experience.

• Provides excellent customer service to patients, co-workers, physicians and clinical staff.
• Schedules new patient appointments for both physicians and ancillary departments appropriately and accurately.
• Collects and updates all necessary patient demographic, insurance, and clinical information.
• Accurately updates computer systems with patient demographic, insurance, and appointment information.
• Ensures appropriate clinic has accurate patient information as to the nature, severity and duration of concern.
• Communicates with patients to keep them apprised of the status of their appointments. Monitors all aspects of individual patient schedules for continuity of appointments and appropriate prerequisite appointments.
• Communicates with Admissions, Financial Counseling and Utilization Management when necessary to ensure a successful patient visit.
• Communicates with clinicians to ensure that patient appointments are accurately scheduled.
• Maintains knowledge of NJH clinical operations, insurance procedures, and clinical terminology. Maintains appropriate level of expertise with the Registration systems, Scheduling system, Passport and Electronic Medical Record system.
• Accountability: Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
• Attention to detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
• Customer Focus: Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs.
• Decision Making: Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
• Informing and Communicating: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Peer Relations: Interacts with others in a constructive, positive, and respectful manner, regardless of individual differences. Assists team members or co-workers in achieving personal goals and completing assignments.

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility

None

Travel

None

Core Values

• Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
• Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
• Be well groomed, appropriately for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.
• Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes NetLearning by due date annually.
• Promotes a workplace culture based on mutual respect and merit, where all individuals are treated fairly and provided with equal opportunity to contribute to the mission and goals of the institution.
• Adheres to safe working practices and at all times follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures.
• Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education:High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Work Experience:One year customer service experience required. One year patient scheduling or health care call center experience preferred.
• Special Training, Certification or Licensure:Candidates who are bilingual speaking Spanish are highly desired.

Salary Range: $20.69 - $27.36

Benefits

At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset. With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

• Comprehensive Medical Coverage:Multiple Cigna health plans for Colorado, regional office and remote employees. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available to pair with some plans.
• Paid Time Off:Generous PTO accruals to use for vacation and sick days, and six paid holidays, all compliant with Colorado state sick leave regulations.
• Dental & Vision Plans:Coverage effective the first of the month after hire.
• Retirement Savings:403(b) plan with employer contributions after two years.
• Wellness Incentives:Earn up to $200 annually for preventive health activities.
• Tuition Reimbursement:Up to $5,250 annually for full-time and part-time employees.
• Child Care Assistance:Childcare Flex Spending Account (FSA) with annual employer contribution.
• Loan Forgiveness:Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer.
• Disability & Life Insurance:Employer-paid plans and optional buy-up choices.
• Voluntary Benefits:Full suite of coverage options such as Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Plan
• Exclusive Discounts:Savings on local services, insurance, and RTD bus passes.

Anticipated Application Deadline: 2026-08-07

National Jewish Health
Human Resources
1400 Jackson St
Denver, CO 80206
303.398.1035
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National Jewish Health is a non-profit, non-sectarian institution and is a longstanding cornerstone in the Denver healthcare community. National Jewish Health seeks to attract the best-qualified candidates who support the mission, vision and values of the Institution. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, marital, familial or parental status, genetic information, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected classification. We are a tobacco and fragrance-free environment.