This role will function as an air traffic controller, coordinating and ensuring physician, midlevel provider, scheduled equipment, and other scheduled clinical resource (i.e. all scheduled clinical resources) availability satisfies patient demand in a timely fashion.
Under general supervision, assumes responsibility for proactively understanding, managing, and reporting on the inpatient and/or outpatient availability of all scheduled clinical resource time within a given clinical specialty, across all sites of practice.
This will include acting as a centralized resource to facilitate patient access and scheduling for referring physicians, patients, and others.
The responsibilities include acting as a centralized resource for the specialty across all sites of practice to ensure standardized and consistent scheduling practices, protocols, and procedures for all scheduled clinical resources.
Responsibility also includes ensuring consistent master schedules for all scheduled clinic resources.
The Central Schedule Coordinator will also track physician and midlevel provider time in clinic, time away, and requests for schedule closure or alteration. Preparing a variety of tracking reports will also be required.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
High School or equivalent is required. Associates degree is preferred.
Minimum of one (1) to two (2) years of experience in a business office environment including experience with scheduling appointments and schedule maintenance.
Analytical ability required preparing physicians' schedules is preferred.
Familiarity with computer applications in a PC and mainframe environment is preferred.
Additional Information
Organization: Henry Ford Medical Group
Department: EndocrinologyMetabolism - NCO
Shift: Day Job
Union Code: Not Applicable
Additional Details
This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.
Overview
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services - from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers .
Benefits
The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That's why we offer support in the various components of our team's well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height, weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.