Pay Rate: $33.0 - $53.48 per hour

City of Hope Orange County is transforming cancer treatment by bringing world-class expertise and specialized care closer to home. Supported by a regional network of care, our 11-acre academic cancer campus in Irvine is home to City of Hope Orange County Lennar Foundation Cancer Center, our outpatient cancer center, and Orange County’s only cancer specialty hospital, opening in late 2025.

With the opening of the hospital, the full continuum of advanced cancer care—from prevention through survivorship—will be available in Orange County for the first time, eliminating the need to travel for lifesaving treatment. Seamlessly connected to our outpatient cancer center, the new clinical research hospital will feature 73 inpatient beds, advanced surgical suites, groundbreaking clinical trials, and holistic services such as rehabilitative therapy and spiritual care. This isn’t standard cancer care. This is lifesaving cancer care. This is Hope.

As a successful candidate, you will: 

Personnel Management

• Accomplishes human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning work, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; administering timekeeping system; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Develop a culture of pride and ownership and provide opportunities for learning and growth. Ensures appropriate staffing levels throughout work week, reassess staffing levels to identify and achieves staffing optimization. Monitors and authorizes overtime when necessary. Schedule work assignments to ensure appropriate staffing coverage during regular office when scheduled and unscheduled absences occur. Provides timely decision making and direction to staff to streamline workflow, improve efficiency of operation and eliminate delays; re-assign work as needed.

Quality Assurance

• Monitors staffing productivity and quality by monitoring thresholds and benchmarks. Provides constructive feedback to staff and senior leadership.  Responsible for implementing quality control audits to monitor the quality of work and provide retraining as required to maintain performance standards.
• Establish and foster excellent customer service practices supporting the daily needs of patients, caregivers, providers and staff.  Oversees effective customer service systems, communication and feedback. Serve as the first line of communication and follow through for patients via direct means, telephone, email, and written correspondence.  Respond and solve problems, including internal and external complaints.

Change Management

• Handle special projects involve supporting work related to various strategic initiatives such as improving patient access, improving patient satisfaction, and implementing new systems. Manage change to achieve the required strategic planning outcomes.

Resource Management

• Continuously assess and streamline processes, establishes and implements standard work, maintains performance boards, monitors metrics, provides agent performance data and expectations to staff on a continuous basis, coordinates meetings and facilitates workgroups. Maintains equipment by evaluating and installing equipment; develops preventive maintenance programs; calls for repairs; evaluates and implements upgrades. Implements new technology, and acts as a catalyst for change to meet current and future business needs. Provide subject matter and technical expertise in the design and implementation of relevant applications.

Your qualifications should include: 

• Associates Degree  (3 additional years of experience plus the minimum experience requirement may substitute for minimum education).
• 3 years of patient access  experience, preferably in an ambulatory setting.
• 1 years of healthcare experience as a lead or supervisor.
• Preferably:  Bachelor’s Degree.  Six sigma yellow or green belt.

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.

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