Female Bilingual Bank Worker/Interpreter

Job Description

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group was created by bringing together staff and services from two NHS Trusts, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of over 19,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond – come and take your place with us. This vacancy is advertised under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 section 7(2) para 3.14(b) - Genuine occupational qualification. Due to cultural and religious reasons patients may request an interpreter of the same sex.THIS VACANCY IS OPEN TO FEMALE APPLICANTS ONLYTHE BELOW QUESTIONS MUST BE ANSWERED IN THE SUPPORTING INFORMATION SECTION OF THE APPLICATION FORM. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL MAKE YOUR APPLICATION UNSUCCESSFUL:Q1. Can you speak another language apart from English fluently If so please state which language(s).Q2. Do you hold any qualifications in the language(s) you can speak fluently Please state the qualifications (if you have studied in a foreign language please state this too.Q3. Do you hold any interpreting qualifications Please state the qualifications. Community Interpreting level 2/3 or equivalent is minimum requirement or if you are studying towards this prior to commencing work.Q4. Do you drive and have access to a car or live local to the 4 Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust You may be contacted at short notice and will need to be available immediately.Daytime availability is essentialand pay will be according to the following rates:Daytime (6am to 8pm) rate: £10.09 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:AlbanianTigriinyakoreanVietnameseKurdishSomaliAmharicNepaleseRomanianOromoBambaraWolofBeninEdoYorubaBurmeseBravanese/BravaZaghawaLugandaTagalog/FilipinoTwiShonaTeluguThaiFulaChichewaYou 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.In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.All communications to applicants will be via the email address provided on your application form and all further correspondence will be through email, therefore please ensure that you regularly check your emails after the closing date for this post. For further details / informal visits contact:Corienne Shaw or Saiqa Yousafor email on interpretation@pat.nhs.uk