Surgical Coordination Specialist
Seattle, WAJob$27.17–40.75/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Surgical Coordination Specialist coordinates complex surgical events that require expertise from two or more services, from initial family contact through and after the event. The role helps arrange testing and appointments, facilitate access and continuity of care, address families’ funding concerns, notify primary care providers, and support smooth transitions among patients, families, providers, and staff.
Skills & qualifications
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Qualifications
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Full job description
For complex surgical events (care coordination beyond surgery scheduling requiring two or more services' expertise) will provide coordination services, beginning with patient family first contact,evaluation and continuation through and after surgical event; may include pre, post and ancillary testing such as scans, consults and coordination of such appointments; will help facilitate access to and provide continuity of care; assist families with addressing/resolving their funding concerns; assist with PCP notifications; provide appropriate interactions with provider team, staff, patients and families to assure smooth transitions throughout the surgical event stages.
Required Education and Experience
High school diploma or equivalent experience. Minimum one (1) year experience as a Surgery Coordinator (or equivalent experience in a leadership role) AND, Minimum of two (2) years experience as a Family Service Coordinator or equivalent clinical reception/ coordinator experience. Demonstrated knowledge of Medical Terminology.
Required Credentials
N/A.
Preferred
Associate’s Degree or at least two (2) years of college coursework in health care or related field. Significant experience (4 years or more) working with the general public in a health care/customer service environment. Familiarity with other cultures/bilingual skills.
Compensation Range
$27.17 - $40.75 per hour
Salary Information
This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.
Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants
This compensation range is specific to Seattle, positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors .
Benefits Information
Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits .
About Us
Hope. Care. Cure. These three simple words capture what we do at Seattle Children’s – to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Are you ready to engage with a mission-driven organization that is life-changing to many, and touches the hearts of all? #HOPECARECURE
Our founding promise to the community is as valid today as it was over a century ago: we will care for all children in our region, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric and adolescent, academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.
U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks Seattle Children’s among the nation’s best children’s hospitals. For more than a decade, Seattle Children’s has been nationally recognized in key specialty areas. We are honored to be one of the nation’s very best places to care for children and the top-ranked pediatric hospital in Washington and the Pacific Northwest.
As a Magnet designated institution, we recognize the importance of hiring and developing great talent to provide best-in-class care to the patients and families we serve. Our organizational DNA takes form in our core values: Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Equity and Innovation. Whether it’s delivering frontline care to our patients in a kind and caring manner, practicing the highest standards of quality and safety, or being relentlessly curious as we work towards eradicating childhood diseases, these values are the fabric of our culture and community. The future starts here.
Our Commitment
Seattle Children’s welcomes people of all experiences, backgrounds, and thoughts as this is what drives our spirit of inquiry and allows us to better connect with our patients and families. Our organization recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes based on merit without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
The people who work at Seattle Children’s are members of a community that seeks to respect and celebrate all the qualities that make each of us unique. Each of us is empowered to be ourselves.
Seattle Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Workplace and Affirmative Action Employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,340 open Care Coordination jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$27.17–40.75/hr
- Washington median$26–54/hr28 hourly ranges
- US median$24–45/hr804 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $33.96/hr, is 13% below the Washington median midpoint ($39/hr) — in the middle half of Care Coordination hourly ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Care Coordination jobs in Washington and 1,340 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Molina Healthcare11 open
- Virginia Mason Franciscan Health4 open
- Family Resource Home Care3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Care Coordination postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (1,077 postings).
- Education
- 151 of the 1,340 open Care Coordination jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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