Job Description
Spanish Medical Interpreter
Position: Spanish Medical Interpreter
Department:
Reports to: Department Supervisor
Created: April 22, 2025
Job SummaryThe interpreter, under general supervision, has the responsibility to interpret written and/or spoken material from one language to another while maintaining the original meaning, format, and tone. They play a crucial role in facilitating communication and understanding between different language speakers, sometimes in very specialized and sensitive cases. They will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to bridge communication gaps and foster multilingual understanding. This position will help improve quality, promote safe clinical care, and enhance the patient and family’s healthcare experience.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities- Ability to deliver high quality translated content via written or oral communication
- Ability to interpret fluently
- Reads, translates, and rewrites documents as needed
- Collaborates with a multidisciplinary team to ensure patient understanding, patient concerns, explain treatment options, and updates as needed
- Specialized knowledge in healthcare and knowledge of medical terminology
- Specialized knowledge in cultural understanding
- Ability to detect nonverbal cues or cultural customs specific to that group of people
- Ability to document timely and appropriate in the electronic medical record
- Ability to work weekends, holidays, and take call
- Must be organized and able to cope with stress
- Ability to maintain unbiased and neutral
- Coordinates effective transitions plans post discharge by calling patient post discharge
- Adhere to all SCRMC policies, procedures, and employee performance standards
- Participates in department improvement and other activities as needed
- Demonstrates competency in performance of relevant skill set
- Demonstrates reliability by consistently reporting to work on time as scheduled
- Must adhere to all components of HIPPA guidelines
- Must complete all annual requirements in a timely manner
- Must maintain a professional appearance
-Must be able to type 30 wpm
-Ability to read, write and understand verbal and written instructions. -Basic computer skills Minimum Requirements- Minimum of two years’ experience in healthcare
- Must be able to pass a Language Proficiency Assessment
- Must be 18 years or older
- Stand, sit, walk- frequently
- Talk, hear- continuously
- Pushing, pulling, lifting- occasionally
- Using hands- frequently
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