Spanish Language Interpreter - Behavioral Sciences Campus

Houston Dose; Houston, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

UTHealth Houston's Behavioral Sciences Campus (BSC) is the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the country, comprising John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center and Harris County Psychiatric Center, serving 27 counties.

BSC manages 23 on-site units with a total of 538 beds, delivering comprehensive behavioral health care. The Spanish Language Interpreter role ensures patients’ access to psychiatric services by leveraging strong English and Spanish writing and translation skills, supporting

Qualifications

• Strong English and Spanish writing and translation skills.
• Ability to translate clinical and medical documents accurately.
• Experience supporting translation in healthcare settings is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides written translation of patient histories, medical reports, and instructional materials.
• Provides oral translation during patient referrals, registrations, evaluations, and care discussions.
• Interprets clinical, financial, psychosocial, and ethical discussions related to patient care.
• Serves as a resource to patients and staff to support positive outcomes.
• Performs on-call translation duties requiring immediate response.

Skills

Bilingual English/Spanish

Written translation

Oral interpretation

Education

Associate's Degree

Job description

UTHealth Houston's Behavioral Sciences Campus (BSC) is hiring a Spanish Language Interpreter! Our Behavioral Sciences Campus, the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the country, is comprised of John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center and Harris County Psychiatric Center, serving 27 counties. BSC offers individualized inpatient treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders across its 23 on-site units, totaling 538 beds. These units include treatment in child/adolescent, adult/geriatric, co-occurring disease, psychosis, and competency restoration units.

The Spanish Language Interpreter plays a critical role in ensuring patients' access to psychiatric services by utilizing strong English and Spanish writing and translation skills, with attention to grammar and accuracy, to support the delivery of essential, timely care. This role not only supports clinical interpretation but also helps to translate crucial medical, legal, and other documents to expand patient access to resources.

What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.

Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:

• 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
• Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
• The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
• Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
• Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!

We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as

• Free financial and legal counseling
• Free mental health counseling services
• Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
• Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
• Resources for child and elder care
• Plus many more!

Position Summary

Provides oral and written translation of diverse patient care-related material.

Position Key Accountabilities

• Provides written translation of patient histories and other medical reports, patient education and instructional material, advance directives, medical documents and other institutional publications.
• Provides oral translation of discussions related to patient referral, new patient registration, financial evaluation, patient assessment, treatment planning, admissions, discharge, and other clinical and healthcare-related discussions.
• Interprets clinical, financial, psychosocial and ethical discussions related to patient care activities.
• Serves as a resource to patients, staff and care providers to contribute to successful patient outcomes.
• Performs on-call translation duties requiring immediate response to electronic paging.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills

Strong English and Spanish writing and translation skills strongly preferred.

Minimum Education

Associate's Degree required. May substitute required education with equivalent years of experience beyond the minimum experience requirement.

Minimum Experience

2 years of relevant experience required

Physical Requirements

Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.

Security Sensitive

This position is a security-sensitive position pursuant to Texas Education Code §51.215 and Texas Government Code §411.094. To the extent that a position requires the holder to research, work on, or have access to critical infrastructure as defined in Texas Business and Commerce Code §117.001(2), the ability to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure is a minimum qualification to be hired for and to continue to be employed in that position. Personnel in such positions, and similarly situated state contractors, will be routinely reviewed to determine whether things such as criminal history or continuous connections to the government or political apparatus of a foreign adversary might prevent the applicant, employee, or contractor from being able to maintain the security or integrity of the infrastructure. A foreign adversary is a nation listed in 15 C.F.R. §791.4.

Residency Requirement

Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.