Birth Registrar Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma required.
• Obtain Notary Public access within 60 days of hire or placement.
• Possess critical-thinking and analytical skills.
• Ability to multitask, communicate effectively, and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.

Nice To Haves

• Six months of relevant experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Type birth certificates using Virginia Department of Health software for electronic birth certificates.
• Print birth certificates for review and signature by the mother and place a copy in the mother’s chart.
• Deliver birth certificates to Health Information Management for a management signature and send signed certificates to the Department of Vital Records.
• Maintain paper backups of information in the appropriate system.
• Explain the paternity-paper process to unwed mothers and assist parents with completing the paperwork.
• Report paternity documents weekly to the Virginia Paternity Establishment Program.
• Identify when fetal death forms are needed, complete demographic information, and forward forms to Health Information Management.
• Send finalized fetal death forms to the Virginia Department of Health, Division of Health Statistics.
• Send a monthly report of fetal deaths to the Fredericksburg Health Department.
• Perform other assigned duties and clerical tasks, including transcribing physicians’ orders to appropriate documents.
• Perform selected patient registration activities.
• Coordinate scheduling of patient tests and diagnostic procedures, as well as patient transports.
• Enter patient charges promptly, verify the accuracy of the level of care at the point of entry, and follow up as appropriate.
• Review patient charts to ensure procedural documentation and consent forms are present.
• Post patient diagnostic results in patient charts.
• Facilitate communication among diagnostic/testing areas, patient-care areas, and families.
• Answer the patient call-light system and promptly communicate patient and family requests to appropriate personnel.
• Coordinate equipment and supply needs and notify appropriate departments of equipment malfunctions in collaboration with the Unit Manager.
• Assist the Unit Manager with regulatory readiness, quality improvement activities, emergency procedures, and the hospital-wide infection-control plan.
• Demonstrate effective communication, customer service, confidentiality, and team-building skills.