Medical Interpreter - Northern Virginia

10100 Children's Hospital; Virginia; On-site; USD 30,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's National Medical Center is seeking a Medical Interpreter to provide interpretation services for patients, families, and staff in acute and chronic medical situations. Services offered in person, by phone, or via video to support patient interactions across the hospital.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, 1 year of interpreting experience in critical contexts, fluency in English and a target language, and completion of a 40-hour Medical Interpreter Training Course.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience (Required).
• Fluency in English and target language (Required).
• Highly proficient in medical terminology (Required).
• Successfully pass the Interpreter Skills Assessment (Required).
• 40-hour Medical Interpreter Training Course Completion (Required).

Responsibilities

• Eliminates Language Barriers to Patient Care.
• Facilitate communication among patients, families, and staff.
• Interpret directly and accurately, without omissions, additions or interference.
• Manage assignments independently without close supervision.
• Maintain patient, family and staff confidentiality and privacy.
• Provide sound recommendations to leadership to ensure adequate services for non-English speaking patients.

Skills

Bilingual language skills

Fluency in English and target language

Medical terminology

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

40-hour Medical Interpreter Training

Job description

Job Title

Medical Interpreter

Job Summary

Kids Are Our Everything. Department 10035 Language Service Pay Range $22.08 - $36.79 The Medical Interpreter will provide language interpretation services to patients, families and staff in critical, acute, or chronic medical situations as needed. The Medical Interpreter will provide services in person, telephonically or via video remote to assist patients and families in their interactions throughout the hospital.

Requirements

• Minimum Education Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of experience. (Required)
• Minimum Work Experience 1 year Experience as interpreter for individuals in critical situations. (Required)
• Required Skills/Knowledge Bilingual Language Skills
• Required Skills/Knowledge Fluency in English and target language
• Required Skills/Knowledge Highly proficient in medical terminology
• Required Licenses and Certifications Successfully pass the Interpreter Skills Assessment, or equivalent, provided by CNH.
• Required Licenses and Certifications 40-hour Medical Interpreter Training Course Completion (must have proof of certificate from a reputable training institution). (Required)

Functional Accountabilities

• Eliminates Language Barriers to Patient Care
• Facilitate communication among patients, families, and staff
• Interpret directly and accurately, without omissions, addition 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
• Promote Appropriate Utilization of Interpretation Services by Staff
• 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
• Contributes to a Well-Organize Program
• 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-to-day 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

Pay and Benefits

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children’s National believes an individual’s base pay rate will fall for this position.

It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range.

The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children’s National compensation philosophy.

Children’s National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees.

This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law.

The policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a “drug-free” work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.

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