Bilingual Medical Interpreter — Spanish

Phoenix Children's Hospital, Inc.; Phoenix, Northern (AZ, KY); Hybrid; USD 48,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Phoenix Children's Hospital, Inc. is seeking a bilingual interpreter to provide interpretation between patients, families, and healthcare teams, ensuring understanding of cultural considerations during treatment planning.

The role requires experience in healthcare settings, adherence to national standards of interpretation ethics, and collaboration with translators and social services to support patient-centered care.

Qualifications

• Concurrently interprets between patient, family and healthcare team to ensure understanding of needs.
• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of interpretation activities.
• Works with the health care team and translator to identify documents requiring translation.

Responsibilities

• Concurrently performs bilingual interpretation (English and foreign language) of patient care needs.
• Consecutively interprets following national standards of practice and ethics.
• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of interpretation activities.
• Collaborates with translator to identify documents requiring translation.
• Refer psychosocial issues to social work or related departments as needed.
• Performs miscellaneous duties as requested.

Skills

Bilingual interpretation

Consecutive interpretation

Documentation of interpretation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Medical interpreter training (national standards)

Spanish Bilingual Assistant or equivalent

Job description

Phoenix Children's Hospital, Inc. is seeking a bilingual interpreter to provide interpretation between patients, families, and healthcare teams, ensuring understanding of cultural considerations during treatment planning.

The role requires experience in healthcare settings, adherence to national standards of interpretation ethics, and collaboration with translators and social services to support patient-centered care.