Division Coordinator - Orthopedics
Nemours Children's Health
Location
Wilmington, Delaware
Quick overview
The Division Coordinator manages onboarding, credentialing, and scheduling for visiting trainees and students within the Orthopedics program. They serve as the central point of contact for departmental activities and ensure physician licensure and activity are updated.
Requirements summary
An Associate's Degree or equivalent experience is required for this role. Candidates must have one to three years of relevant professional experience.
Job description
Nemours is seeking a Division Coordinator, Orthopedics to join our Nemours Children's Health team in Wilmington, DE.
- The Division Coordinator will support one or more of the Orthopedic program areas including but not limited to visitors and students, CV, and physician activity.
- Handles situations requiring knowledge of the overall function of responsibility, the overall organization’s mission, structure, and culture.
- Acts as central point of contact for other departmental associates on departmental activities.
- Responds to inquiries and represents the department in dealing with both internal customers as well as external contacts.
- May be assigned special projects.
Essential Functions
Responsibilities
- will include but are not limited to:
- Administers onboarding logistics and requirements (through online portal) for visiting trainees from affiliate partners and casual and medical observers (international medical graduates).
- Interfaces with affiliate partners to coordinate preparation and delivery of onboarding requirements.
- Coordinates all aspects of the trainee application process including responding to inquiries, evaluating applications, reviewing, and verifying credentials, generating follow-up correspondence, and maintaining appropriate records.
- Assures house staff is appropriately licensed, insured, HIPAA trained, have appropriate immunization status, and comply with background check and drug screening.
- Serves as gatekeeper for approval for computer access and use of Medical Records. Submit Epic requests for all house staff and coordinates scheduling of appropriate training on hospital systems.
- Responds to inquiries regarding student rotations, observer rotations, and other training issues and manages extensive correspondence via e-mail, telephone, and written correspondence.
- Maintains system of review of affiliation agreement and PLAs prior to expiration.
- Works in collaboration with the Practice Schedule role to create rotation schedules for all visitors and students to ensure clinic spaces are not overloaded.
- Collaborates with Surgical Practice Coordinators and physicians to ensure CV and physician activity is updated monthly.
- Collaborates with Operations Supervisor to ensure all provider licensure is tracked and renewed in a timely manner.
- Provides back-up to the other Division Coordinators or Surgical Practice Coordinators as needed.
Requirements: Associate's Degree (will consider equivalent years' experience and enrollment in degreed program)
One to three years of experience required
Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.
Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.
Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.
Learn more at Nemours.org [https://www.nemours.org].