# Interpreter (Medical)

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Salt Lake City, Utah
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: $22.98 - $35.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Coordinates and delivers interpretation and translation services for individuals with limited English proficiency across Intermountain Health facilities and virtual services.

**Responsibilities**

- Interpret medical and general information with high accuracy and completeness

- Interpret complex medical information, demonstrating expert knowledge of medical terminology and the healthcare system

- Act as a cultural mediator, demonstrating cultural sensitivity and superior intercultural communication skills

- Adhere to the National Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice for Healthcare Interpreters

- Manage time productively and respond to requests in a timely manner

- Use computer, software, and electronic tools for research, data entry, and communication purposes

- Translate written material into one or more languages, maintaining meaning, context, and localisation

**Requirements**

- Current resume reflecting interpreting experience, employment history, and relevant certifications

- Successful completion of a pre-hire skills assessment

- Excellent oral and written command of both source and target language(s)

- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment

- Certificate of completion from a 40-hr Professional Medical Interpreter course (or equivalent)

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Two years of experience working as an interpreter in healthcare settings

- Bachelor's Degree in Interpretation or Translation, Languages or Communications

- National Certification as a Healthcare or Medical Interpreter

- Completion of a college-level medical terminology course

- Knowledge of EPIC

**Schedule and Shift**

- PRN/As needed position, shifts vary by business need

- Must be able to work all shifts, including weekdays, weekends, evenings, and night shifts

**Pay Range**

- $22.98 - $35.00 per hour

## Skills

### Required
- Medical Terminology
- Cultural Communications
- Language Interpretation and Translation
- Professional Ethics and Communication
- Basic Computer and Data Entry Skills
- Collaboration/Teamwork
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Situational Awareness
- Interpreting

### Nice to have
- EPIC
- Medical Terminology Course
- National Certification as a Healthcare or Medical Interpreter

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