Staffing Assistant

SSM Health; Missouri; Remote; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health is seeking a Staffing Assistant to join the Workforce Strategy team. This PRN role involves coordinating staffing needs and ensuring the right resources are in place to care for patients.

Expect a fast-paced environment requiring strong organization and communication as you help keep teams connected and supported. Your responsibilities include creating and publishing schedules, managing time-off and float coverage with management oversight, and using scheduling tech to boost

Qualifications

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience.
• One year experience in a related role or setting.

Responsibilities

• Creates schedules using established policies and procedures. Publishes schedules in advance according to set timelines.
• Manages time-off requests and float coverage. Approves, denies or wait lists based on coverage with Manager approval; assigns open shifts.
• Utilizes automated scheduling tools to facilitate scheduling and improve efficiency while maintaining service quality.
• Ensures schedule completeness and timely communication to staff and managers for compliance.
• Manages clinician schedule change requests within department guidelines.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Organization

Communication

Scheduling

Staff coordination

Education

High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

Job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-REMOTE

Worker Type: PRN

Job Highlights:

Additional Job Description

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community.

At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact. As a Staffing Assistant, you’ll help keep our teams connected and supported by coordinating staffing needs and helping ensure the right resources are in place to care for our patients. Bring your organization, communication skills, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment to a role where your work makes a difference every day.

Department: Workforce Strategy

Schedule: PRN - a minimum of two -12 hour shifts are required in a 4 week period. This may be a combination of day and night shifts. All shifts are from 7am-7pm or 7pm-7am and includes some weekends.

Job Summary: Creates and coordinates clinical and frontline staff schedules using a web-based scheduling program to meet staffing needs based on patient census.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Creates schedules using established policies and procedures. Publish schedules in advance according to set timelines.
• Manages time out requests and float coverage. Approve, deny or wait list requests based on availability of coverage with Manager approval. Manage vacant duties through viewing and assigning open shifts. Assist manager in monitoring staff allowable time off balances.
• Utilizes automated technology to facilitate scheduling and improve efficiency while maintaining positive customer satisfaction.
• Responsible for managing schedule completeness and efficient timely communication to assure staff and manager compliance.
• Manages and approves clinician requests for schedule changes affecting patient visits within department guidelines.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

Experience

• One year experience

Physical Requirements

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

Required Professional License And/Or Certifications

• None

Department: 8726030033 Workforce Strategy and Operations

Work Shift: PRN / Per Diem Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0

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