Male Bilingual Bank Worker (Interpreter)

Job overview

Band 3 pro-rata (as and when required)

Daytime availability is essential and pay will be according to the following rates:   Daytime (6am to 8pm) min 2 hours paid for face to face interpretation and video . Telephone interpretation paid minimum 30mins.

Out of Office Hours (8pm to 6am) and weekend hourly rate: min 1 hour paid for face to face and video interpretation. Telephone interpretation minimum 30mins paid at enhanced rate.

Plus mileage and parking only paid from base/nearest hospital to another location, no home to base mileage or parking for first appointment to the base hospital.

*If you do not work, when required, within the first 3-6months (depending upon circumstances), you may not be offered work again*

Main duties of the job

Please state clearly on your application form the language you are applying for as failure to declare your language will make your application unsuccessful.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust wishes to update the Bank of Interpreters with a variety of languages to provide a comprehensive interpreting service to its hospitals in Oldham, Rochdale, Bury & Salford. The service will operate daily, out of hours, weekends and bank holidays as required.  Full daytime availability is compulsory in order to be shortlisted.

All languages are required including the following:

Albanian

Tigrinya

Korean

Vietnamese

Kurdish

Somali

Amharic

Nepalese

Romanian

Oromo

Bambara

Wolof

Benin

Edo

Yoruba

Burmese

Bravanese/Brava

Zaghawa

Luganda

Tagalog/Filipino

Twi

Shona

Telugu

Thai

Fula

Chichewa

You will be responsible for providing a confidential, efficient and effective interpreting service to health professionals and patients in both the hospital and community settings on a sessional basis (as and when required) according to the specified time either daytime or out of hours and weekends.

You must be available for induction training and orientation days. Possession of an interpreting qualification is essential and experience of interpretation preferably in a hospital setting.  As well as face to face, interpretations are also conducted via telephone and video so knowledge of IT systems is also essential e.g. MS Teams & Accurx flemming.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk