Spanish Medical Interpreter Lead

St. Luke's Health System; Ketchum (ID); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site massages

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness tools and programs

Job summary

St. Luke’s Health System is seeking a Medical Interpreter Lead to facilitate clear and accurate interpretation for healthcare staff, patients, and visitors. Responsibilities include complex scheduling, and serving as a subject matter expert during leadership absence as requested.

The role requires a High School Diploma or equivalent, 3 years of relevant experience, and 40 hours of professional interpreter training, plus language assessment and certification eligibility.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: 3 years relevant experience
• Certificate: Minimum 40 Hours of Professional Medical Interpreter Training.
• Language Assessment: Must successfully pass language assessment through St. Luke's Health System prior to hire and hold one of: Certified Healthcare Interpreter or Certified Medical Interpreter

Responsibilities

• Interpret complex medical information to patients and/or companions.
• Assess and monitor patients' understanding of information conveyed.
• Advise medical personnel about cultural information that may impact patient care.
• Interprets in consecutive, simultaneous and sight translation modes.
• Maintain knowledge of medical and general terminology.
• Utilize a variety of technology to support departmental workflows.

Skills

Bilingual proficiency

Medical interpretation

Ethics knowledge

Cultural mediation

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Interpretation technology

Job description

Medical Interpreter Lead facilitates clear, accurate and effective medical and general interpretation for healthcare staff, patients, companions and visitors. This includes, but is not limited to, interpretation, and complex scheduling.

• Interpret complex medical information to patients and/or companions.
• Demonstrates knowledge of National Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for Interpreters in Healthcare.
• Assesses and monitors patients' understanding of information conveyed.
• Advises medical personnel about cultural information that may impact patient care.
• Understands variety of regional accents, linguistic styles and registers.
• Interprets with highest degree of accuracy and completeness in consecutive, simultaneous and sight translation modes.
• Self-corrects, understands own linguistic limitations, seeks clarification and accepts corrections.
• Maintain knowledge with medical and general terminology.
• Superior fluency in one or more languages in addition to English.
• Utilize a variety of technology, tools, and resources to support departmental workflows.
• Cross trained to support multiple functional areas.
• Serves as a role model, mentor, trainer and/or resource to coworkers
• Serves as a subject matter expert and may assume leadership responsibility during management absence, as requested.
• Supports an exceptional experience through all customer interactions, ensuring professional, timely and accurate communication
• both verbally and in writing.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: 3 years relevant experience
• Certificate: Minimum 40 Hours of Professional Medical Interpreter Training.
• Language Assessment: Must successfully pass language assessment through St. Luke's Health System prior to hire. AND One of the following -Certified Healthcare Interpreter from Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters OR -Certified Medical Interpreter from The National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters

Requirements:

Medical Interpreter Lead facilitates clear, accurate and effective medical and general interpretation for healthcare staff, patients, companions and visitors. This includes, but is not limited to, interpretation, and complex scheduling.

• Interpret complex medical information to patients and/or companions.
• Demonstrates knowledge of National Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for Interpreters in Healthcare.
• Assesses and monitors patients' understanding of information conveyed.
• Advises medical personnel about cultural information that may impact patient care.
• Understands variety of regional accents, linguistic styles and registers.
• Interprets with highest degree of accuracy and completeness in consecutive, simultaneous and sight translation modes.
• Self-corrects, understands own linguistic limitations, seeks clarification and accepts corrections.
• Maintain knowledge with medical and general terminology.
• Superior fluency in one or more languages in addition to English.
• Utilize a variety of technology, tools, and resources to support departmental workflows.
• Cross trained to support multiple functional areas.
• Serves as a role model, mentor, trainer and/or resource to coworkers
• Serves as a subject matter expert and may assume leadership responsibility during management absence, as requested.
• Supports an exceptional experience through all customer interactions, ensuring professional, timely and accurate communication
• both verbally and in writing.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: 3 years relevant experience
• Certificate: Minimum 40 Hours of Professional Medical Interpreter Training.
• Language Assessment: Must successfully pass language assessment through St. Luke's Health System prior to hire. AND One of the following -Certified Healthcare Interpreter from Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters OR -Certified Medical Interpreter from The National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters

What's in it for you:

At St. Luke’s, caring for people in the communities we serve is our mission – and this includes our own SLHS team. We offer a robust benefits package to support our teams both professionally and personally. In addition to a competitive salary and retirement plans, we ensure our team feels supported in their benefits beyond the typical medical, dental, and vision offerings. We care about you and have fantastic financial and physical wellness options, such as: on-site massages, on-site counseling via our Employee Assistance Program, access to the Personify Health Wellness tool, as well as other formal training and career development offerings to ensure you are meeting your career goals.

St. Luke’s is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by law.

*Please note: this posting is not reflective of all job duties and responsibilities and is intended to provide an overview to job seekers.