This position is responsible for the accurate interpretation via face-to-face health care information to and from various language-speaking patients / patient families and health care providers.
Volunteer interpreters are integral to the day to day running KC CARE Health Center. They are the bridge between our providers and the patient and must be able to comfortably interpret medical terminology such as patient symptoms and doctors' diagnoses and treatment instructions.
Shifts Availability:
Monday- Friday
8:30am-12:30pm
1:00am-5:00pm
Translator will also translate voice messages from Spanish to English via our vonage communication app from Patients
Accurately interpret medical and health care information/instructions from physicians, nurses, or other health care staff to non-English speaking patients/families in a consecutive or simultaneous mode in Health Care and department's established standards
- Considerable knowledge of both English and other languages.
- Skill in translating spoken words
- Requires the ability to speak in another language and English to convey or exchange information.
- Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, etc. in English and other languages
- Requires the ability to write using standard conventions in English and other languages
