Elective Services Consultant Job – Golden Valley, MN
With five locations throughout the Twin Cities metro area, Northwest Eye is among the largest specialty eye care providers in the Midwest. Our environment is both dynamic and adaptable! The variety of patients you interact with each day and cutting-edge eye health practices will keep you at the top of your game.
Do you love to talk with patients and share possible surgical options for improved vision? Northwest Eye has a new opening for a Patient Cataract Consultant within our Specialty Center.
SUMMARY
The Cataract and Refractive Surgery Consultant works with surgeons, clinic staff members, and patients for growth of the elective service line. The primary responsibility is to educate patients on their elective care options and to increase the number of eligible patients that choose services by providing an exceptional patient experience and subject matter expertise. This individual is an educational resource for patients and is instrumental to the growth of elective services. Elective services include, but are not limited to, LASIK, Advanced Cataract options and dry eye services.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Patient Care Coordination
Do you love to talk with patients and share possible surgical options for improved vision? Northwest Eye has a new opening for a Patient Cataract Consultant within our Specialty Center.
SUMMARY
The Cataract and Refractive Surgery Consultant works with surgeons, clinic staff members, and patients for growth of the elective service line. The primary responsibility is to educate patients on their elective care options and to increase the number of eligible patients that choose services by providing an exceptional patient experience and subject matter expertise. This individual is an educational resource for patients and is instrumental to the growth of elective services. Elective services include, but are not limited to, LASIK, Advanced Cataract options and dry eye services.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Patient Care Coordination
- Provide exceptional personal service and attention to patients during their visit to the clinic.
- Talk to patients over the phone and in person about the benefits of our elective services.
- Explain all paperwork, obtain necessary signatures, and collect payment when appropriate with established protocols.
- Explain the procedures and evaluation process in a manner that prepares the patient.
- Support the evaluation process by problem solving and coordinating the visit, including engaging the surgeon or site manager, as necessary.
- Close the visit with the patient and subsequent workflows, including scheduling the surgery and finalizing the pricing.
- Assists patients with pre- and post-operative preparations for smooth and comfortable surgical experience.
Inquiry Follow Up
- Performs telephone and one-on-one follow-up with prospective patients.
- Counsels patients on the benefits of elective services and follows established protocols regarding access, cost, and process for elective services.
- Use and maintain daily task management system for continuous and accurate follow up of potential surgery patients, from all sources.
- Responsible for assessing patient needs, financial counseling, lead tracking, reporting, and follow up with professional communication.
Patient Scheduling
- Schedule patients for appointments with the surgeons for surgery or evaluation.
- Maintain distribution process of patients to surgeons, as established by protocols.
- Document sales notes for each patient in database system.
- Assist with patient registration, discussion of patient scheduling access, and check-in as needed.
Administrative
- Interact effectively with regional team members, managers, surgery technical staff, surgery schedulers, surgeons, administration, and other members of the management team to assure quality patient care.
- Maintenance of a data base to track follow up calls, emails, and tasks.
- Maintain sales and marketing information and education supplies at clinic sites.
- Fully understand all elective service package details.
- Support staff education on refractive surgery knowledge by participating with in-services and support development of presentations.
- Produce reports from tracking software to meet the needs of surgeons and management.
- Support marketing efforts as needed by organization.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Other Duties
- Encourage and participate in new aspects and offerings of our elective services.
- Open to collaboration with regional team members and flexibility with changes.
- Provide ideas and suggestions on how process, flow and offerings can be constantly improved.
- Other tasks as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- High school diploma required.
- College coursework preferred.
- Experience in a medical office with extensive patient service experience.
- Experience in ophthalmology or optometry preferred.
- Sales experience preferred.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Understanding of ophthalmology terms and procedures, including refractive error, cataracts, MGD, and the anatomy of the eye
- Patient-care focused approach and ability to interact with patients consistently throughout the day.
- Professional communication skills and ability to educate and support patient decision-making.
- Able to clearly document activities in a computer tracking system.
- Organized and can move between multiple tasks while maintaining progress in work and attention to detail.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational and multi-tasking abilities.
About Us:
Northwest Eye Clinic provides a wide range of service offerings from comprehensive pediatrics, cataract surgery and premium lens implants, treatment of corneal and retinal disease and glaucoma, oculofacial and esthetic services to LASIK and total eye care that allow us to care for all ages, from newborns to seniors. Our doctors, surgeons, and eye care professionals are true professionals with uncommon enthusiasm for education patients about eye care. We make patient education our focus and encourage patients to Be Eye Wise about their eye health.
Northwest Eye and MN Eye Consultants are now sister companies under Unifeye Vision Partners! To view employment opportunities at all of our locations go to www.unifeyejobs.com
Unifeye Vision Partners provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Job Number: 8a78839f91e3131c019210d38f096765