Male Bilingual Bank Worker (Interpreter) | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking interpreters to provide essential services across hospitals. Candidates must have an interpreting qualification and experience in medical settings. The role offers flexible working hours, including night and weekend shifts. Applicants are encouraged to specify the language of service on their application. This role provides an excellent opportunity for those fluent in various languages to contribute to healthcare delivery.

Benefits

Mileage and parking reimbursements

Qualifications

• Must possess an interpreting qualification.
• Experience with interpretation in a hospital setting is preferred.
• Knowledge of IT systems is essential (e.g., MS Teams).

Responsibilities

• Provide confidential interpreting services to health professionals and patients.
• Deliver interpreting via face-to-face, telephone, and video formats.
• Participate in induction training and orientation days.

Skills

Interpreting qualification

Experience in hospital settings

IT systems knowledge

Job description

Overview

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust is updating the Bank of Interpreters to provide a comprehensive interpreting service to its hospitals in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury & Salford. The service will operate daily, out of hours, weekends and bank holidays as required. Full daytime availability is compulsory in order to be shortlisted.

Responsibilities

• Provide confidential, efficient and effective interpreting services to health professionals and patients in hospital and community settings on a sessional basis, as required, according to the specified time (daytime or out of hours and weekends).
• Deliver interpreting via face-to-face, telephone and video formats.
• Be available for induction training and orientation days.

Qualifications and Requirements

• possession of an interpreting qualification (essential).
• Experience of interpretation, preferably in a hospital setting.
• Knowledge of IT systems is essential (e.g., MS Teams & Accurx Fleming).
• Full daytime availability; willingness to work out-of-hours and weekends as required.
• Indicate clearly on your application the language you are applying for; failure to declare may result in an unsuccessful application.
• Must be available to work as part of a sessional bank of interpreters across multiple languages.

Languages

• Albanian
• Tigrinya
• Korean
• Vietnamese
• Kurdish
• Somali
• Amharic
• Nepalese
• Romanian
• Oromo
• Bambara
• Wolof
• Benin
• Edo
• Yoruba
• Burmese
• Bravanese/Brava
• Zaghawa
• Luganda
• Tagalog/Filipino
• Twi
• Shona
• Telugu
• Thai
• Fula
• Chichewa

Pay and Working Hours

• Band 3 pro-rata (as and when required).
• Daytime availability essential (6am–8pm): minimum 2 hours paid for face-to-face interpretation and video; minimum 30 minutes for telephone interpretation.
• Out of Office Hours (8pm–6am) and weekends: minimum 1 hour paid for face-to-face and video interpretation; telephone interpretation minimum 30 minutes at enhanced rate.
• Plus mileage and parking only paid from base/nearest hospital to another location; no home-to-base mileage or parking for the first appointment to the base hospital.

Additional Information

• Advert closes on Wednesday 24 Sep 2025.