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Join Cleveland Clinic's Main Campus where research and surgery are advanced, technology is leading-edge, patient care is world-class, and caregivers are family. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation. At Cleveland Clinic, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world. 

As a Patient Liaison Program Coordinator, you will be responsible for assisting with program development that effectively focuses on continuous service improvement, removing barriers to care and promoting and positive patient experience. The caregiver in this role supports and functions as a direct key point to patients and surgeons on the day of surgery.  

A caregiver in this position works days, 7:00am—3:30pm.  

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Promote an integrated/coordinated approach to manage the continuum of care for the patient and their family members. 

• Serve as a liaison to patients with internal and external care providers and processes of care within their area and across the enterprise. 

• Provide input to developing standard operating procedures that will guide and build a program that effectively supports the care of patients. 

• Be involved in the implementation of new processes that will guide patients to the appropriate resources and support services they need to improve the patient experience. 

• Proactively round to meet new patients and promote available programs and services. 

• Provide education. 

• Capture patterns of successes and challenges within the patient experience and enter them into a database to perform analysis that will drive improvements to patient services. 

• Work with other areas within the Institute and across the enterprise to implement services that meet the needs of the patient or the patient’s family. 

• Identify, evaluate, and resolve patient complaints. 

• Perform all duties of liaison in the absence of a manager to resolve complaints or use effective reasoning as in when to escalate an issue for problem resolution. 

• Document all contacts. 

• Remove barriers to care and facilitate coordination of care. 

• Facilitate communication or responses to patient needs. 

• Ensures positive working relationships between physicians, caregivers, patients and families. 

• Support the highest quality of patient standards. 

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Associate’s degree in communication, psychology, sociology or a related field  

• 3 years of related experience in customer relations with diverse patient/culture populations 

• A high school diploma/GED and five years of progressively responsible experience may substitute the education requirement 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Bachelor’s degree 

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster. 

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.