Patient Advocate - USC Care Patient Experience - Full Time 8 Hour Days (Exempt) (Non-Union) | University of Southern California (USC) Job at University of Southern California (USC), Pasadena, CA

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  • University of Southern California (USC)
  • Pasadena, CA

Job Description

The Patient Advocate is the premier resource to hear directly from the people we serve. The Patient Advocate strives to empower patients and families to take an active role in improving their patient experience while providing creative solutions to unique challenges. Using advocacy skills, manages patient expectations and proactively educates and influences expected service behaviors with staff and physicians. Responsible for developing education materials and policies that are patient and family centered. Drawing on ability to empathize and look at situations from a variety of perspectives, creatively and effectively facilitates patient care services and amenities while always anticipating patient and family needs, taking into account various cultures, religions, and individual needs. Successfully resolves complaints and grievances. Manages service recovery initiatives and the patient and family advisory council.

Essential Duties:

  • Assist clients with serious chronic or life threatening illnesses and their families to make informed medical decisions, form effective partnerships with providers and assist patients/families in developing self-advocacy skills. Promotes an active patient voice. Facilitate techniques for patient involvement in informed decision making.
  • Processes patient complaints from initial intake through resolution including documenting in SRM. Complaints may be received in writing, in person, via phone or through surveys and comment cards. Continued education to staff on the complaint process.
  • Mange the NOW Service Recovery Program. This includes distribution of NOW service recovery boxes, ordering recovery items, maintaining the NOW database and auditing the service recovery process.
  • Provide ongoing NOW Service Recovery Program education to staff at inpatient and ambulatory settings.
  • Manage the Patient and Family Advisory Council. This will include logistics, agenda items, minutes and follow-up action items.
  • Manage the Patient and Family Advisors Program. This will include recruitment, onboarding process and assignment of the advisors throughout our hospitals.
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

  • Req High school or equivalent
  • Req Demonstrated interpersonal, communication and customer service skills.
  • Req Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with physicians, managers, staff, volunteers, auxiliary member, community and volunteer organizations, media and general public. Ability to perform duties with minimal supervision, multi-task, organize, and respond to competing deadlines and requests in a calm and productive manner.
  • Req Proactive in all endeavors.


Preferred Qualifications:


Required Licenses/Certifications:

  • Req Fire Life Safety Training (LA City) If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA City only)

The annual base salary range for this position is $68,640.00 - $112,370.00. When extending an offer of employment, the University of Southern California considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidates work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, federal, state, and local laws, contractual stipulations, grant funding, as well as external market and organizational considerations.

About University of Southern California (USC)

USC is the leading private research university in Los Angeles—a global center for arts, technology and international business. With more than 47,500 students, we are located primarily in Los Angeles but also in various US and global satellite locations. As the largest private employer in Los Angeles, responsible for $8 billion annually in economic activity in the region, we offer the opportunity to work in a dynamic and diverse environment, in careers that span a broad spectrum of talents and skills across a variety of academic and professional schools and administrative units. As a USC employee and member of the Trojan Family—the faculty, staff, students, and alumni who make USC a great place to work—you will enjoy excellent benefits, including a variety of well-being programs designed to help individuals achieve work-life balance.

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