Appointment Clerk (Bilingual)

This position represents (7) openings.

Job Summary:
This position provides high-level member assistance as first critical contact by appropriately scheduling appointments through complex appointment making applications, transferring calls appropriately, composing messages and providing general information.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Operates in a high volume, highly structured environment by responding to incoming calls, applying critical thinking to complex guidelines, and using multiple call center specific systems.
• Determines the type of appointment requested or needed, reviews scheduling mix of various physicians/providers, and then makes appointment following appropriate guidelines.
• Prioritizes member needs and offers alternatives to members when appropriate.
• Utilizes superior customer service skills to provide service to members when diffusing difficult member encounters.
• Uses tact and diplomacy in handling difficult interactions with members.
• Determines if calls are urgent or emergent by listening to the member, and following established guidelines, and then transferring the call to a Registered Nurse when appropriate.
• Composes messages for physician/providers, Registered Nurses or other medical staff based on members requests.
• Responds in a courteous and professional manner to general questions, using on-line databases to provide information to any member or other personnel calling the center.
• Identifies ways to improve quality of service to members and recommends steps used to accomplish these changes.
• Must perform all of the above duties while meeting established standards of performance for quality and productivity.
• Performs other clerical duties as assigned.
• Promotes, ensures, and improves customer service to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Basic Qualifications:
Experience

• One (1) year customer service experience in a service related industry, preferably healthcare.

Education

• High school graduate or General Education Development (GED) equivalent.

License, Certification, Registration

• N/A

Additional Requirements:

• All testing must be completed by the end of the posting period.
• All internal transfer applicants and all external applicants for the Customer Service Representative position are required to pass the job related assessment.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) Level I required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• N/A.

Notes:
- Must successfully have passed the bilingual test (within the last 12 months), or be active in the QBS program.

Primary Location: California,Fontana,Palm Court II - SCAL Regional
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 20
Shift: Variable
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun
Working Hours Start: 12:00 AM
Working Hours End: 11:59 PM
Job Schedule: Call-in/On-Call
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Onsite
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: B05|USW|Local 7600
Job Level: Entry Level
Department: REGIONAL PALM COURT II - Appointment Services-Same Day - 0806
Pay Range: $26.78 - $29.54 / hour Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Travel: No
On-site: Work location is on-site (KP designated office, medical office building or hospital). Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. For jobs where work will be performed in unincorporated LA County, the employer provides the following statement in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

• Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, accreditation, and licensure requirements (where applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.

• Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others in accordance with the Principles of Responsibility, adheres to organizational policies and guidelines; supports compliance initiatives; maintains confidences; admits mistakes; conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions; follows through on commitments.

• Job duties with at least occasional or possible access to: (1) patients, the general public, or other employees; (2) confidential protected health information and other confidential KP information (including employee, proprietary, financial or trade secret information); (3) KP property and assets, for example, electronic assets, medical instruments, or devices; (4) controlled substances regulated by federal law or potentially subject to diversion.