Home Health Scheduler

Why UT Southwestern?

With over 75 years of excellence in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, UT Southwestern is committed to excellence, innovation, teamwork, and compassion. As a world-renowned medical and research center, we strive to provide the best possible care, resources, and benefits for our valued patients and employees. With over 20,000 employees, we are committed to continuing our growth with the best professionals in the healthcare industry. We invite you to be a part of the UT Southwestern team where you’ll discover teamwork, professionalism, and consistent opportunities for growth.

Summary

Works under minimal supervision to coordinate and maintain scheduling of visits for home health patients and staff. Enters staff and patient information into database and maintains reports.

Experience and Education

High school graduate or equivalent level of education required.
Home Health/Scheduling experience: 6 months required.
Computer skills: 1 year required.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Job Duties

Assists in taking referrals, patient intake process.
Is responsible for development and continual monitoring of the work schedules for Clinicians to meet patient care needs, adjusts staffing according to available staff and reports changes to appropriate supervisors, assure accuracy of the time reports, verify hours worked daily, bonus hours, overtime hours and benefit days, and calculate staffing based on adjusted census daily.
Is responsible to coordinate and maintain scheduling for patients and staff.
Timely communication of scheduling changes between office and field staff.
Creates and maintains staff schedules. Prepares weekly schedule for field staff and provides notification to employees.
Provides staffing for sick leave, vacation, long term leave. Schedules patient appointments/visits according to care plans and staff availability.
Discerns patient services required as outlined in agreements, urgent requests, and care plans.
Contacts care providers and clients regarding day-to-day changes.
Enters staff and patient information into database.
Maintains staff and patient statistics, and reports.
Calls hospital Social Services department to notify them that an Agency patient has been admitted to their hospital.
Performs general office duties including but not limited to word processing, photocopies, etc.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Working Conditions

Work is performed primarily in the home health office. The candidate will need to be available to be on-call two weeks/weekends per month to manage any shift changes and nurse call-offs.

Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimums require prior approval of the Vice President for Human Resources Administration, or his/her designee.

This position is security-sensitive and subject to Texas Education Code §51.215, which authorizes UT Southwestern to obtain criminal history record information. UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status. To learn more, please visit: why-work-here/diversity-inclusion