Senior Medical Interpreter - Spanish/English - Full time - On Site - DC

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The Senior Interpreter/Translator will provide language interpretation services to patients, families, and staff in critical, acute, or chronic medical situations as needed. The Sr. Interpreter/Translator will provide services in person, telephonically, or via video remote interpreter to assist patients and families in their interactions throughout the hospital. This person will assist their manager in program knowledge and initiatives.

This position provides in-person interpretation services across multiple Children's National Hospital locations throughout the Washington metropolitan area. Assignments may include coverage at facilities in the District of Columbia, Northern Virginia, and Maryland, based on operational needs. Candidates must demonstrate flexibility and the ability to travel between sites to ensure consistent, high-quality language access services for patients and families.

Minimum Education
Bachelor's Degree (Required)
Master's Degree (Preferred)

Minimum Work Experience
3 years Experience as a medical interpreter in a clinical setting (Required)

Required Skills/Knowledge
Bilingual Language Skills
Fluency in English and Spanish
Highly proficient in medical terminology

Required Licenses and Certifications
Successfully pass the Interpreter Skills Assessment, or equivalent, provided by CNH. (Required)
40-hour Medical Interpreter Training Course Completion (must have proof of certificate from a reputable training institution). (Required)
Certification by National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters (CMI) or by Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI) (Required)

Functional Accountabilities
Eliminates Language Barriers to Patient Care

• Facilitate communication among patients, families and staff

• Interpret directly and accurately, without omissions, addition or interference with communication

• Manage assignments independently without close supervision

• Set limits appropriately; maintain professional boundaries as interpreter; maintain patient, family and staff rights to confidentiality privacy

• Maintain professional role and sensitivity during critical medical and/or psychological situations; respect all parties in the discussion and their individual roles

• Abide by Interpreter Code of Ethics

• Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication

• Provide sight translation of patient care related documents

• Provide document translation of a limited list of patient related materials

Promotes Appropriate Utilization of Interpretation Services by Staff

• Educate staff in the process of how to appropriately request interpretation services

• Communicate with staff about staff needs and patient/family needs

• Work closely, interdepartmentally, providing recommendations by communicating information as requested and directed by medical provider/ clinical staff

• Partner with program staff to share best practices and to ensure cultural and linguistic requirements are met

• Advocate for patients/families with staff to facilitate continuity of care

• Provide sound recommendations to departmental leadership to ensure adequate services to non-English speaking patients and families

Contributes to a Well-Organize Program

• Help to ensure interpretation assignments are coordinated accurately, effectively and efficiently

• Maintain schedules and required logs/tracking system in order to track project progress and productivity

• Maintain departmental performance reports

• Manage time to maximize productivity

• Accurately document interpretation assignments in all systems and databases utilized and required by the program

• Facilitate the distribution, coordination, and assignment of day-to-day activities among fellow division staff and under the guidance of the division leadership

• Independently execute various administrative and clerical tasks within the division in support of day-to-day operations

• Proactively engage with and leverage multiple hospital systems to enhance support for divisional or daily operational functions

• Assist with coordination and completion of projects (e.g., use periodic checks to assess and track the progress of a project's timeline and/or performance

• Apply substantive knowledge in order to assist and represent manager thoroughly in the scope, diversity, and complexity of project and organizational commitments

• The individual in this role may assume additional job duties beyond those outlined in this job description

The disclosed salary range includes the minimum and maximum rates within which Children's National believes an individual's base pay rate will fall for this position. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the maximum of the pay range. The exact pay rate for this position will be based on a variety of factors in alignment with the Children's National compensation philosophy. These factors are legitimate and non-discriminatory including, but not limited to, the current market conditions; organizational needs; the individual's combination of prior work experience, level of education, knowledge, skills, and other qualifications. Children's National is committed to providing a fair and competitive total rewards package to each of our employees. This base salary range does not include our comprehensive benefits package or any additional compensation for which this position may be eligible.

Childrens National Hospital is an equal opportunity employer that evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or other characteristics protected by law. The "Know Your Rights" poster is available here: and the pay transparency policy is available here:Know Your RightsPay Transparency Nondiscrimination Poster.

Please note that it is the policy of Children's National Hospital to ensure a "drug-free" work environment: a workplace free from the illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled Substances Act), or the misuse of legal substances, by all staff (management, employees and contractors). Though recreational and medical marijuana are now legal in the District of Columbia, Children's National and its affiliates maintain the right, in accordance with our policy, to enforce a drug-free workplace, including prohibiting recreational or prescribed marijuana.