Communications Operator

St. Lukes Health–The Vintage Hospital provides high-quality compassionate care for residents of the Willowbrook Champions and Tomball areas of Northwest Houston. With the resources of the St. Luke’s Health system we are able to deliver the most advanced care available to our Northwest Houston community. The Vintage Hospital offers the latest in diagnostic and surgical expertise including heart care women’s health and orthopedics.

Provides call‐processing services in the Health System‐wide, centralized call processing operation serving Health System personnel, private practice physicians, residents, patients, and the public. Assists customers in obtaining information and services. Provides emergency and disaster alerting. Monitors equipment and Performs routine maintenance and trouble shooting tasks. Assists with clerical tasks as assigned.

ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assist customers in obtaining information, and services.

2. Work with all levels of personnel and physicians to utilize effective customer service skills to provide assistance and handle problem situations.

3. Demonstrates skills and ability to operate department equipment, and Performs operational tasks including Pager exchanges.

4. Demonstrates skills and ability to process diverse requests for information including incoming and outgoing calls, as well as emergency/disaster alerting.

5. Demonstrates skills and ability to activate Health System and Departmental emergency plans including fire safety, medical emergency (code blue), and disaster and hurricane weather, as required.

6. Demonstrates skills and ability to operate emergency communications equipment including telephone and paging notification systems.

7. Demonstrates skills and ability to document technical and operational problems.

8. Provide accurate documentation of work performed; provide timely and accurate information and reports to co‐workers and management levels, summarizing problems and solutions.

9. Accurately and effectively plan, organize, and control assigned tasks and responsibilities, leading to high productivity, quality, and responsiveness. Demonstrates effective organizational skills to ensure that the workload is processed in a timely manner.

10. Assist the Senior Telecommunications Representative, and/or Manager in maintaining and updating department databases, including the Health System Directory, for call processing and paging, as well as locator information for physicians, employees, patients, and on‐call personnel.

11. Maintain an orderly work area, ensuring that equipment, supplies, parts, etc. are stored in cabinets, closets, or other designated areas.

12. Develop and maintain knowledge and understanding of information technology, including operating systems, telecommunications, and networking.

Education and Experience Required:

• High School Diploma/GED
• Two (2) Years of experience in call processing, dispatching, paging, and customer service.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge and understanding of telecommunications equipment and services including; Windows based software, preferably E‐mail, Excel, Word, integrated telemessaging equipment, etc.
• Must have the ability to resolve problems and have excellent communication skills, telephone customer service, and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to multi‐task and maintain a positive attitude.
• Will sometimes be asked to serve on a project team that contributes to the improvement of morale and department performance.
• Provides recommendations for improvements, as well as contributions towards making the improvements.

Disclosure Statement:

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.