Male Bilingual Bank Worker (Interpreter) Manchester, England
Job description
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) rate: £11.11 per hour min 2 hours paid for video or face to face interpretation. Telephone interpretation paid at £0.16p per minute minimum 30mins paid.
Out of Office Hours (8pm to 6am) and weekend hourly rate: £23.60 per hour min 1 hour paid for face to face and video interpretation. Telephone interpretation paid at £0.39p per min minimum 30mins paid.
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.
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 Pennine Acute Hospitals 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. The languages required are:
Albanian
Tigriinya
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. Most interpretations are now conducted via telephone and video so knowledge of IT systems is also essential e.g. MS Teams & Accurx flemming.
Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.
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
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and return your application form as soon as possible.
