Summary
NMC Healthcare is seeking a Call Center Executive in Abu Dhabi to serve as a first point of contact for patients. The role handles incoming calls, appointments, service enquiries, insurance details, call-backs, complaints and call routing while meeting departmental KPIs. Candidates need at least one year of contact center experience in a patient-focused environment and experience operating a multi-line switchboard. The role follows shift schedules and requires adherence to patient confidentiality, infection control, patient safety and JCI requirements.
The posting
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You will be the first point of contact for our patients, providing them with exceptional customer service and support. Ensuring calls to and from the hospital are attended promptly, politely and to the entire satisfaction of the patient.
Answering incoming calls, managing multiple lines simultaneously, and help patients with various tasks. Those may include scheduling appointments, providing information about healthcare services, confirming insurance details, and routing calls to appropriate healthcare personnel.
Responsibilities
Responsible for maintaining excellent telephone etiquette and professionalism while attending to the patient calls
Maintaining departmental KPI’s.
Liaising with the supervisor and the HOD to improve KPI’s and overall patient experience.
Responsible for attending to all the incoming patient calls promptly, without delay.
Ensures call backs are completed in a timely manner.
Maintains clarity in communication and pleasant tone of voice at all times.
Well versed with the contact center processes of call hold, call transfer, message receipt, call back as per specified guidelines.
Assists the patient in the best way possible and creating a good impression
Maintaining a good average handling time while ensuring that the caller is satisfied and has been attended too.
Responsible for booking appointments as well as clarifying enquiries related to the hospital services.
Responsible for collecting and maintaining feedback regarding services and communicating effectively with the concerned department, regarding any complaints received from patients.
Responsible for handing difficult patients with calmness in a professional manner and escalate to the concerned department when needed.
Multitask and manage the call volumes as per the call process flow.
Promote the services of the hospital to patients.
Follow the duty schedule as assigned by the team leader/supervisor which includes different shift timings as per the need of the department
Strictly adheres to NMC’s regulations and policies especially those related to infection control, patient safety & JCI.
Supports Continuous Quality Improvement and participates and contributes to all the quality assurance activities of the service.
Participates and contributes to scheduled in-house training programs.
Exercises effective interpersonal skills in dealings with department staff, colleagues and Management.
Maintains patient & staff confidentiality.
Demonstrates the ability to listen to others in promoting effective communication.
Appointment management including no shows, confirmation, cancellation & rescheduling.
Doctors calendar creation and updating & maintaining doctors notes.
Maintaining the duty change as per the unit protocol
Qualifications
Minimum 1 year experience as a contact center agent in a patient focused environment and operation of multi-line switchboard system.