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A Switchboard or Telephone Operator works for a telephone company or system to operate telephone system equipment to route incoming calls, direct internal calls, or assist customers with placing calls. Assists with connecting long distance or collect calls, or provides customers with assistance in finding a phone number or an address. May also answer customer calls at a company or organization or work for an agency that handles and routes emergency calls.
$40,051 / year median in Massachusetts
-12% projected decline
Job Description
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Mass General Brigham Incorporated Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham. Job Summary Operator Representative I, MGB Digital Communications Center 40 hours per week 9a-530p Tues-Friday Onsite Primarily at BWH Main Campus 75 Francis St At Mass General Brigham Digital, we pride ourselves on our ability to create maximum strategic, clinical, and operational value from established and emergent technologies for our patients, care teams, researchers, and employees. Digital health will not only enhance the equity and efficiency of healthcare delivery, but it will also help make medicine more personalized and precise. We recognize that increasing value and continually improving quality while maintaining an inclusive focus are essential to organizational excellence, and we invite you to join us on this journey. The work we do in Digital is a strategic imperative, and there is a strong and growing understanding of how together we will transform Mass General Brigham in innovative and impactful ways. Reporting to the Supervisor, Call Center Operations, the Operator I supports the success of Mass General Brigham call centers by providing exemplary service and customer care to every caller. The Operator ensures that calls are answered and managed in a consistent, efficient, and courteous manner. Role Duties The Operator provides services to a 24x7 call center. The Operator receives and manages several types of incoming calls including calls to the main hospital number, calls for patient information, pages, code calls and answering service calls. The ideal candidate is able to move easily between calls, treating every caller as a welcome guest.- Manages incoming and outgoing calls in an expedient, efficient and courteous manner using the prescribed phraseology.
- Processes requests for paging and retrieval of pages efficiently and accurately. Changes the current paging status as requested by the holder of the pager.
- Issues new, replacement and loaner pagers as well as returns and deletes pagers from the Mass General Brigham paging system including updates to the telephone directory and paging databases.
- Understands the various "codes" and the procedures for their activation. "Codes" include: medical, fire, internal and external disasters, and other emergencies, often of a life-threatening nature.
- Responds to all telephone inquiries for patient information which may include handling confidential information.
- Responds to requests from staff regarding department on-call schedules.
- Handles answering service calls in an efficient and courteous manner using prescribed guidelines.
- Escalates unusual or difficult problems with callers, telephones, pagers or answering services to the Supervisor.
- May be required to perform responsibilities at multiple locations based on need and situation.
- Other duties as assigned.