About This Role
This role is for a freelance legal and medical transcriber to work from home, transcribing confidential, terminology-heavy audio and video recordings. It suits someone with a keen ear and meticulous attention to detail, capable of adhering strictly to client templates and style guides.
Responsibilities
- Transcribe from audio and video recordings, often multi-speaker, with variable recording quality and heavy specialist terminology
- Work into supplied templates governed by strict protocol and formatting rules, ensuring consistency with house style
- Research names, citations, medications, procedures, and terminology for accurate and complete transcripts
- Proofread and quality-check your own work before submission
- Build and maintain glossaries, and act on feedback from quality checks
- Flag poor audio and mark inaudible passages properly rather than guessing
Requirements
- Solid, demonstrable experience of legal and/or medical transcription
- Proven experience of working from audio and video files into templates with strict protocol and formatting rules
- Excellent English grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary, and confidence with legal and/or medical terminology
- Fast, accurate touch typing (around 75 wpm or better) with an excellent ear and genuine attention to detail
- Ability to research case references, names, and terminology online and get them right
- Reliability and clear communication
- Self-employed status in the UK, invoicing for work, responsible for own tax and National Insurance, and holding a UK bank account
- A dedicated, secure Windows computer that is not shared with anyone else, running Microsoft Word 2010 or later
- A stable broadband connection and good-quality headphones
- Willingness to work in line with information security procedures, including secure file handling, device encryption, and password policy
Nice to have:
- Three or more years' experience of court, tribunal, inquiry, or clinical transcription
- BIVR accreditation, or a relevant transcription or medical secretarial qualification (for example AMSPAR)
- Familiarity with digital recording platforms such as FTR, Liberty, or VIQ
- Existing DBS or SC clearance
Benefits
- Work from home
- Vetting sponsored and funded in full
Important Details
- Schedule: Typically 5 to 8 hours of audio per week, though volume fluctuates
- Turnaround times vary widely, from short-notice same-day jobs to those allowing more than ten days
- A transcription foot pedal (Infinity IN-USB 2 or 3, or equivalent) is strongly recommended