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Communication Operator

San Jose, CA
Full-Time

Job Description

Job Summary:

Under direct supervision, receives incoming calls, initials emergency call notification, pages medical center personnel on request, and maintains various records, as required.



Essential Responsibilities:

  • Following established policies and procedures, establishes and maintains courteous, cooperative relations with the public, patients and other personnel.

  • Promotes, ensures, and improves customer services to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service.

  • Receives and routes incoming calls to appropriate stations.

  • Pages medical center personnel.

  • Responds to callers inquiries concerning patient condition and other requests for information.

  • Announces appropriate and urgent messages. Serves as central communications point for all in-house emergencies (i.e., Code Red and Code Blue). Documents events in logs or in on-line database.

  • Performs various clerical duties such as listings of on-call personnel and listing of beeper personnel; distribution of brochures and mailings.

  • Records and processes requests for telephone equipment repair. Reports equipment malfunctions to appropriate personnel.

  • Performs other related duties as required.

  • Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.



Grade 125


Basic Qualifications: Experience
  • Minimum one (1) year of multi-line telephone experience.
  • Per the National Agreement, current KP Coalition employees have this experience requirement waived.
Education
  • High School Diploma/GED.
License, Certification, Registration
  • N/A
Additional Requirements:
  • Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write basic correspondence.
  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group arrangements to customers, clients, and other incumbents of the organization.
  • Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
  • Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.
  • Must pass typing test of 25WPM.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • N/A

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Job Summary:

Under direct supervision, receives incoming calls, initials emergency call notification, pages medical center personnel on request, and maintains various records, as required.



Essential Responsibilities:

  • Following established policies and procedures, establishes and maintains courteous, cooperative relations with the public, patients and other personnel.

  • Promotes, ensures, and improves customer services to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service.

  • Receives and routes incoming calls to appropriate stations.

  • Pages medical center personnel.

  • Responds to callers inquiries concerning patient condition and other requests for information.

  • Announces appropriate and urgent messages. Serves as central communications point for all in-house emergencies (i.e., Code Red and Code Blue). Documents events in logs or in on-line database.

  • Performs various clerical duties such as listings of on-call personnel and listing of beeper personnel; distribution of brochures and mailings.

  • Records and processes requests for telephone equipment repair. Reports equipment malfunctions to appropriate personnel.

  • Performs other related duties as required.

  • Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.



Grade 125


Basic Qualifications: Experience
  • Minimum one (1) year of multi-line telephone experience.
  • Per the National Agreement, current KP Coalition employees have this experience requirement waived.
Education
  • High School Diploma/GED.
License, Certification, Registration
  • N/A
Additional Requirements:
  • Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write basic correspondence.
  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group arrangements to customers, clients, and other incumbents of the organization.
  • Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
  • Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.
  • Must pass typing test of 25WPM.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • N/A

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