Switchboard Operator

The BPX unit serves as the hospital's central communications hub, responsible for managing all incoming and outgoing calls, paging systems, and emergency communication services 24 hours a day. Primarily responsible for answering and routing all incoming calls. Maintains current knowledge of all Code procedures, including Code 1, disaster, fire, bomb, and electrical alerts. Responds promptly and appropriately to all alarms and is responsible for overhead paging.

Requires the ability to consistently manage multiple tasks simultaneously while operating multiple computer screens. Functions as the information desk for the organization. Consistently monitors and adheres to safety responsibilities and initiatives. Demonstrates an ongoing commitment to the mission, vision, and values of Baptist Health.

• Answer and route incoming calls professionally and provide accurate information to callers.
• Receive, document, and route messages to providers and staff, ensuring timely follow-up.
• Respond to and coordinate emergency codes, alarms, and overhead paging activities.
• Operate switchboard, communication, and information systems while managing multiple tasks.
• Process and route work orders and service requests accurately and efficiently.
• Maintain knowledge of emergency procedures, safety protocols, and compliance requirements.
• Support Baptist Health's mission, values, culture of safety, and customer service standards.
• Complete required training and adhere to organizational policies and regulatory requirements.

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• No prior experience required; one year of related switchboard, customer service, or communications experience preferred.
• PBX/switchboard operation training preferred.
• Typing and general office/computer training preferred.
• Basic computer skills required.
• No licensure, certification, registration, or life support certification required.

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Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist…