Job Description

Your Opportunity:

Reporting to the Manager of Staffing Service Centre (SSC), this Scheduler provides vital support to multiple programs within the North Zone. The Scheduler uses the Environment for Scheduling Personnel (ESP) staff scheduling application proficiently and works within established staff scheduling processes to complete complex and often urgent staff scheduling tasks within short timelines in a busy, high-pressure environment. Attention to detail will be crucial as you ensure that employees are scheduled appropriately, and employee pay data is captured in accordance with AHS policies, procedures, and collective agreement provisions. Leveraging accomplished, technical and interpersonal communication skills you will enjoy providing outstanding customer service to valued clients, in a fast-paced environment while adapting to frequent interruptions and shifting priorities. Your expertise will also be used to assist in the training and orientation of new staff. Your key responsibilities will include filling pre-booked and immediate shifts that result from staff vacation, leave of absence, illness and education leave, anticipating staffing needs and informing managers of shifts that require further attention, entering data for payroll, providing scheduling reports, detailing records and compiling/providing statistical information. Understanding these responsibilities, the ideal candidate will focus on developing trusted relationships, effective interdisciplinary communication with clients and prioritizing with a patient focused mindset. In addition to a competitive rate of pay, AHS currently has a Remote Retention Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $3,000. This allowance is non-pensionable and is payable on an hourly basis for all hours paid at the basic rate of pay.

Description:

As an Administrative Support IV, you will require advanced administrative or specialized skills and knowledge to support complex procedures, practices and initiatives within a department or program.

• Classification: Administrative Support IV
• Union: AUPE GSS
• Unit and Program: Provincial Staffing Services
• Primary Location: Grande Prairie Public Health
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 05-SEP-2023
• Temporary Employee Class: Temporary Full Time
• Date Available: 04-OCT-2023
• Temporary End Date: 04-JAN-2024
• Hours per Shift: 8
• Length of Shift in weeks: 12
• Shifts per cycle: 60
• Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $26.07
• Maximum Salary: $31.68
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Some post-secondary education. Additional Required Qualifications:

Knowledge and operation of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel. Ability to participate and complete a 6-week training course. 1 year customer service experience. 1 year scheduling experience. Schedulers will be assigned to support North Zone and the correlative SSC hours of operation. Preferred Qualifications:

Timekeeping/payroll experience. Call Center experience. Knowledge of the applicable collective agreements and pay codes. Experience working in a unionized, health care and/or 24/7 environment. Experience with AHS scheduling software (Kronos, ESP, ASC). Current experience working in an AHS centralized ESP Staffing Service Center.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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