Transcriptionist-VBH, Full time, Days

Centra Health•Lynchburg, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

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 in order to document patient care and facilitate delivery of healthcare services. This role is onsite @ Virginia Baptist Hospital.

Requirements

High School Diploma / GED
Knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy, pathology, and various medical specialties as required in area of responsibility.
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

Nice To Haves

Ability to understand diverse accents and dialects and varying dictation styles.
CMT or equivalent combination of continuing education and work experience

Responsibilities

Assists in training/mentoring new employees and serves as resource for transcriptionists and problem solves in team leader's absence
Demonstrates the ability to accurately transcribe medical dictation from voice dictation
Demonstrates the ability to handle telephone requests.
Shows the ability to use pathology software
Demonstrates the capacity to trouble shoot the dictation system and maintain the work-list
Informs team leader of problems that impede work-flow and offers suggestion 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 up-time procedure is followed
Secured and returns supplied 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.
Provide and organize 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