Transcriptionist-VBH

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The Medical Transcriptionist is a medical language specialist who interprets and transcribes dictation by physicians and other healthcare professionals regarding gross and microscopic descriptions in addition to final diagnoses to document patient care and facilitate delivery of healthcare services. This role is onsite at Virginia Baptist Hospital.

• Assists in training/mentoring new employees and serves as resource for transcriptionists and problem solves in team leader's absence.
• Demonstrates ability to accurately transcribe medical dictation from voice dictation.
• Demonstrates ability to handle telephone requests and uses pathology software.
• Demonstrates capacity to troubleshoot the dictation system and maintain the work-list.
• Informs team leader of problems that impede workflow and offers suggestions for improvement.
• Maintains confidentiality consistently to employees and patients.
• Makes suggestions for improvement and seeks to solve issues independently.
• Performs downtime procedure when computer system fails; follows downtime protocol and ensures computer uptime procedure is followed.
• Secures and returns supplies as well as maintains orderliness and cleanliness of the work areas.
• Transcribes assigned reports without respect to the assignments and productivity of team.
• Transcribes letters to be sent for consultations along with providing materials to accompany the letter that may include microscopic slides, blocks, etc.
• Provides and organizes detailed information for cancer conference presentation.
• May perform other duties as assigned or requested and job specification can be modified or updated at any time.

• Required
  
  Education:
  
  High School Diploma / GED.
• Required Experience: Knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy, pathology, and various medical specialties; knowledge of medical transcription guidelines and practices; must maintain productivity levels required by department; excellent written and oral communication skills, including English usage, grammar, punctuation and style; ability to use reference resources; ability to work quickly and accurately under time constraints.
• Preferred Experience: Ability to understand diverse accents and dialects and varying dictation styles; CMT or equivalent combination of continuing education and work experience.

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Administrative
• Industries:
  Hospitals and Health Care