Overview
For over 22 years, Premier Anesthesia has been a highly trusted anesthesia practice management partner for healthcare organizations nationwide. With a wealth of knowledge and skill in hospital-based anesthesia practices, they focus on developing and managing anesthesia services tailored to the needs of their clients, medical staff and communities. From recruitment to efficient management, Premier Anesthesia is dedicated to ensuring optimal patient and client outcomes.
Premier Anesthesia is a national anesthesia management company solely focused on building and managing the best anesthesia teams in the industry. The organization’s leadership brings extensive experience in hospital-based physician staffing, recruiting and management. Premier Anesthesia is part of the award-winning Jackson Healthcare® family of companies.
The Locum Staffing Scheduler coordinates provider schedules and coverage for Premier Anesthesia’s locum and transition staffing needs. Working within the Locum Recruiting organization, this role serves as a key link among recruiters, Operations leaders, onsite clinical leadership, Credentialing, Travel, Payroll, Invoicing, agency partners, and anesthesia providers. The scheduler translates approved staffing needs and provider availability into accurate, timely schedules; communicates changes; identifies coverage risks; and maintains reliable scheduling records that support safe, consistent facility operations and a positive provider experience.
Essential Responsibilities:
Scheduling and Coverage Coordination
Partner with Locum Recruiting, Operations leaders, and onsite clinical leadership to understand facility-specific staffing plans, open shifts, skill mix, call requirements, scheduling rules, and priority coverage needs.
Collect, document, and maintain provider availability, assignment preferences, restrictions, available-to-schedule dates, and confirmed commitments in designated scheduling and CRM systems.
Build and maintain provider schedules for assigned facilities, ensuring assignments align with approved requests, provider qualifications communicated by the appropriate clinical or credentialing teams, contractual parameters, and facility requirements.
Confirm assignments with providers and appropriate internal or facility leaders, and distribute schedules according to established timelines and communication standards.
Monitor schedules for gaps, conflicts, duplicate assignments, incomplete information, and changes that could affect coverage; resolve routine issues and escalate clinical, contractual, credentialing, or financial concerns to the appropriate owner.
Coordinate schedule changes, cancellations, replacements, call-outs, and urgent coverage requests with recruiters, Operations leaders, onsite clinical leadership, providers, and agency partners.
Support cross-facility coverage coordination and provider redeployment when business needs and approved assignment parameters allow.
Maintain active ownership of communications with temporary clinicians to fill schedule gaps, including shift confirmations, privilege delays, onboarding coordination, and creation of CDLs.
Clinician Readiness and Relationship Management
Partner with Credentialing and onboarding teams to monitor assignment readiness and avoid scheduling or confirming providers before required checkpoints are completed.
Serve as a point of contact when a clinician is missing documentation in the privileging process and coordinate follow-up with the appropriate owner.
Act as a liaison for temporary labor orientations and clinical shifts to build and maintain hospital staffing schedules.
Partner with Echo recruiters to identify incoming clinicians and maintain ongoing relationships with active temporary clinicians.
Build professional, service-oriented relationships with providers, onsite clinical leaders, facility contacts, agency partners, and internal stakeholders.
Use a consultative approach to remove barriers, identify solutions, and…