Employment Type:

Part time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

Job Title: Interpreter (Spanish-language) Job Code: S2011

Department: Multicultural Services
General Summary:
This position supports the Mission of Trinity Health and Holy Cross Hospital by serving to facilitate medical and other communication among patients, family members, visitors, and Holy Cross Hospital clinical and non-clinical staff, and by working to minimize linguistic and cultural barriers.

The interpreter will be responsible for providing direct Spanish-language interpretation services, primarily, throughout the clinical units that comprise the Women & Children’s Services department, and, as needed, throughout Holy Cross Hospital (inpatient and outpatient units, and administrative departments). Interpretation encounters will involve interaction with patients, family members, and visitors. The interpreter will make regular visits to the Patient Care Units, or interact remotely via telephone, to assess the need for interpreter services and/or will respond to direct calls from Hospital staff. The position requires a candidate who possesses excellent verbal and written fluency in English and Spanish, and the ability to interact tactfully and empathetically. Good judgment in the treatment of confidential patient information also is necessary.

Job Title:

Interpreter-Spanish

Employment Type:

Part-Time

Shift:

Days

(SUMMARY) Position Highlights:

• Competitive pay
• Additional Benefits: tuition reimbursement, free parking, employee discounts
• Quality of Life: Flexible work schedules
• Advancement:  professional growth within the organization
• Location: Holy Cross Health has two hospitals and four healthcare centers all a short driving distance from Washington DC and Baltimore, MD

Description:

• Part-Time
• Reporting to the Manager of Multicultural Services
• The interpreter will be responsible for providing direct Spanish-language interpretation services, primarily, throughout the clinical units that comprise the Women & Children’s Services department, and, as needed, throughout Holy Cross Hospital (inpatient and outpatient units, and administrative departments).

Responsibilities:

• Interpretation encounters will involve interaction with patients, family members, and visitors.
• The interpreter will make regular visits to the Patient Care Units, or interact remotely via telephone, to assess the need for interpreter services and/or will respond to direct calls from Hospital staff.
• The position requires a candidate who possesses excellent verbal and written fluency in English and Spanish, and the ability to interact tactfully and empathetically.
•  Good judgment in the treatment of confidential patient information also is necessary.

What you will need:

Required:

• The candidate should possess a university-level education (Bachelor’s degree preferred) in human/social services, health education, nursing, or allied health science. 
• Importantly, the individual must possess experience in working with a limited-English-proficient (LEP) population.
• Fluency in oral and written communication, in both English and Spanish.  (Successful completion of an assessment of language skills will be necessary.)

About us:

Holy Cross Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system that serves more than 240,000 individuals each year from Maryland's two largest counties — Montgomery and Prince George's counties. Holy Cross Health earns numerous national awards, clinical designations and accreditations across a wide range of specialties for providing innovative, high-quality health care services.

We were named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for 2021.

Holy Cross Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. 

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Trinity Health employs about 133,000 colleagues at dozens of hospitals and hundreds of health centers in 22 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Trinity Health's dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.