Bilingual Medical Interpreter - Remote & On-Site

Children's National Medical Center; Merrifield (VA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's National Medical Center is seeking a Medical Interpreter to provide language interpretation services to patients, families and staff in critical, acute, or chronic medical situations as needed. Services may be in person, telephonically or via video remote to support interactions across the hospital.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, at least 1 year of interpreter experience in critical settings, and fluency in English and a target language with strong medical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (Required)
• 1 year interpreter experience in critical situations (Required)
• Fluent in English and a target language; medical terminology proficiency (Required)
• Successfully pass Interpreter Skills Assessment by CNH (Required)
• 40-hour Medical Interpreter Training Course Completion (Required)

Responsibilities

• Facilitate communication among patients, families, and staff
• Interpret directly and accurately, without omissions, additions or interference with communication
• Manage assignments independently without close supervision
• Set limits appropriately; maintain professional boundaries as interpreter; maintain patient, family and staff rights to confidentiality privacy
• Maintain professional role and sensitivity during critical medical and/or psychosocial situations; respect all parties in their discussion and their individual roles
• Abide by Interpreter Code of Ethics
• Demonstrate accurate, clear, and timely verbal and written communication
• Provide sight translation of patient of patient care related documents
• Provide document translation of limited list of patient related materials
• Educate staff in use of interpreter and available interpretation services
• Communicate with staff about staff needs and patient/family needs
• Work closely, interdepartmentally, provide recommendations by communicating information as requested and directed by medical provider/critical staff
• Partner with program staff to share best practices and to ensure cultural and linguistic requirements are met
• Advocate for patients/families with staff to facilitate continuity of care
• Provide sound recommendations to departmental leadership to ensure adequate services to non-English speaking patients and families
• Help to ensure interpretation assignments are coordinated accurately, effectively and efficiently
• Maintain schedules and required logs/tracking system in order to track project progress and productivity
• Keeping and organizing interpretation requests and reports
• Accurately document interpretation assignments in all systems and databases used and required by the program
• Facilitate the distribution, coordination, and assignment of day-today activities among fellow division staff and under the guidance of the division leadership
• The individual in this role may assume additional job duties beyond those outlined in this job description

Skills

Bilingual

Medical terminology

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Children's National Medical Center is seeking a Medical Interpreter to provide language interpretation services to patients, families and staff in critical, acute, or chronic medical situations as needed. Services may be in person, telephonically or via video remote to support interactions across the hospital.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, at least 1 year of interpreter experience in critical settings, and fluency in English and a target language with strong medical