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/ / Patient Access & Support Specialist - Professional Relations **Patient Access & Support Specialist - Professional Relations**
Job ID: 13544
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Facility/Division: Shared Services
Status: Full Time
Shift: Variable
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**Description**
Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 diverse employees, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.
Summary:
UNC Professional Relations is hiring a full-time Patient Access & Support Specialist for our 24/7 clinical contact center. The Patient Access & Support Specialist role at UNC Professional Relations serves as an integral point of contact for multiple service lines supporting the UNC Health Care System as well as non-affiliated contracted practices across the state. The clinical contact center is looking for Professionals who are skilled in providing excellent customer service to medical professionals as well as a diverse patient population and who also possess strong critical thinking skills. This position will be primarily remote but may need to report onsite occasionally for required meetings, trainings, and during scheduled times when remote access is interrupted. Required hours will include evenings as well as weekends and holidays. Successful applicants should have a private dedicated work space to work remotely, be self-motivated, able to multi-task in a fast paced environment, and demonstrate strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.
Responsibilities:
1. Fronting patient calls for nurse triage and identifying conditions needing urgent intervention.
2. Researching and recommending UNC Health Care System providers to new and existing patients based on their needs and preferences
3. Registering new patients, scheduling, canceling, rescheduling and confirming patient appointments for UNC Health Care System primary care and specialty care facilities across the state and collaborating with internal departments and external entities with a goal of providing the right care at the right time
4. Providing user support for My UNC Chart (patient portal for health records): Answer questions about accessing, navigating and utilizing the website, troubleshoot common issues and provide one call resolutions, route issues needing further investigation to senior level specialists, maintain strict privacy protocols on digital platform, recognize privacy related situations and submit detailed report of possible issues to the Privacy Office when appropriate
5. Coordinating communications between medical professionals for consultation and patient care follow up to ensure patients are receiving timely care.
6. Participating in special projects to add value to the department and its support of the UNC Health Care system in a collaborative and respectful way to meet our organizational goals.
7. Maintaining awareness of higher call volumes and taking appropriate action to prioritize and address call waiting queues in order to meet our departmental service level commitments to provide timely patient care and exceptional patient experiences.
8. Accurately document the details of all incoming and outbound calls in real time in Epic in accordance with standard operating procedures (SOPs).
9. Demonstrate competent customer support related to multiple service line offerings including but not limited to: RN Triage support (contracted practices and Health Plan), RN transitions report, system Access, navigations and primary care scheduling, specialty care scheduling (Atrial Fibrillation and Deep Vein Thrombosis follow up appointments), My UNC Chart user support, NGACO (Senior Alliance) patient and provider support, provider to provider consultations (Carolina Consultation Center), UNC REX Healthnet.
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**Education Requirements:**
? Associates/Bachelors degree preferred. Or equivalent experience and High School diploma or GED.
**Licensure/Certification Requirements:**
? No licensure or certification required.
**Professional Experience Requirements:**
If Bachelors degree, one (1) year of customer service experience, preferably in a health care/patient centered setting.
If Associates degree, three (3) years of customer service experience, preferably in a health care/patient centered setting.
If High School degree, five (5) years of customer service experience, preferably in a health care/patient centered setting.
**Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:**
? Strong verbal and written communication skills with a focus on patient centered care to meet patient and departmental needs; professionalism, active listening, rapport building, facilitating, empathy, conflict resolution, complaint management, and problem solving.Provides open, positive mission-focused communication, direction and assistance to all internal and external customers. Express initiative, teamwork and a good attitude. Shows interest and self-motivation.Ability to work effectively in fast-paced, constantly changing, demanding work environment while maintaining strong critical thinking, communication, and organizational skills.Assumes additional responsibilities while also identifying situations that need 2nd level review/escalation.Familiarity with Microsoft Office programsStrong personal computer and technology skills (including typing)Ability to access and utilize numerous databases simultaneouslyStrong organizational skills and the ability to shift prioritiesMust gain knowledge of the UNC Health Care System and all services we support as well as familiarity with some medical terminology during training.Must gain knowledge of and proficiency in following protocols.
****Job Details****
**Legal Employer:** NCHEALTH
**Entity**: Shared Services
**Organization Unit**: Professional Relations
**Work Type**: Full Time
**Standard Hours Per Week**: 40.00
**Work Schedule**: Variable
**Location of Job**: US:NC:Chapel Hill
**Exempt From Overtime**: Exempt: No
This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care. This is not a State employed position. Share: mail
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