Patient Representative - Per Diem

Long Island Community Hospital has served this richly diverse region as a patient-first community hospital for more than 60 years. As Long Island's only independent community hospital, we are 100% committed to becoming the community's healthcare provider of choice with our greatly enhanced services including the Knapp Cardiac Care Center, our highly-advanced heart disease diagnosis and treatment facility, our new modern surgical pavilion, our unique ER approach, and our high-touch services including women's imaging, sleep laboratory and orthopedics and more. These services are delivered with the highest level of compassion by our LI Community Hospital staff - Long Islanders with an unmistakable mix of courage and heart who care about the people right here in our community and whose sole purpose is to provide personalized comfort. For more information, go to licommunityhospital.org, and interact with us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.

Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Patient Representative - Per Diem - Patient Experience and Culture - Per Diem - 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM.

In this role, the successful candidate Responsible for facilitating proactive communication between patients, families and staff to improve the Long Island Community Hospital Patient Experience. Promotes patient and family centered care throughout the Hospital. Assist patients and family members with issues and concerns and works collaboratively with all departments/areas to promptly facilitate problem resolution.

Job Responsibilities:

• Greet patients and families and creates a courteous and professional patient centered environment.
• Investigates hospital complaints and grievances according to hospital policy and escalates to appropriate areas/ departments. Triages and escalates high profile complaints and effectively communicates. De-escalate patient andor family concerns via phone or in person. Follows Patient Relations process and promptly responds to patient and family concerns. Initiates appropriate service recovery methods to resolve concerns.
• Responsible for timely documentation, entering data into grievance and complaint database.
• Conducts daily proactive new admission patientfamily rounds on units.
• Serves as a resource for information concerning patients rights, responsibilities and advance directives. Provides emotional support as needed to patients, visitors and families.
• Identifies cases that are potential quality or risk issues and makes appropriate and timely referrals to Quality and Risk Management.
• Works collaboratively with the healthcare team in clarifying issues and promoting prompt and caring resolution of patientfamily concerns. Anticipates the needs of the patient population served in relation to their age, culture, languages, deaf, hearing impaired, blind, visually impaired.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a Bachelor's Degree Required. 3 - 5 years Healthcare or customer service related experience Excellent communication (both oral and written), organizational, time management skills. Strong interpersonal and customer service skills. Ability to handle conflict and de-escalate situations. Knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel.

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Long Island Community Hospital provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.

Long Island Community Hospital is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to diversity and inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration without regard to race, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender dysphoria, national origin, age, religion, disability, military and veteran status, marital or parental status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other factor which cannot lawfully be used as a basis for an employment decision. We require applications to be completed online.

View Long Island Community Hospital's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policy , the Federal "EEO is the law" poster , or visit https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm for more information.

Long Island Community Hospital provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $36.00 - $36.00 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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