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AGH Solutions Limited is a subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and provides a range of services to the Trust. We have opportunities for dependable, people centred and caring individuals to join our Interpreting Services team. We require experienced Interpreters to interpret and translate for patients whose first language is not English. We are therefore inviting applications from people who are fluent in both English and at least one of the following languages to join our team of Bank of Interpreters:

 Arabic, Bangla (Sylheti dialect only), Bulgarian, Cantonese, Czech, Dari, Farsi/Persian, Gujarati, Hungarian, Italian, Kurdish Sorani, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Mandarin, Oromo, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi (Mirpuri dialect only), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

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 We require Interpreters to undertake face to face bookings or remote interpreting where suitable for clinical appointments via telephone and video. You must be able to communicate effectively with patients, clinical teams. work colleagues and visitors throughout the process and delivery of the service. You must have excellent listening and communication skills and be able to consecutively and simultaneously, interpret and translate health and medical information accurately. You must have an excellent understanding of the Interpreters Code of Conduct along with Equality and Diversity, Safeguarding policies, Information Governance and Data Protection requirements. A professional qualification is essential such as Certificate in Community Interpreting or NVQ Level 3 in Interpreting. A Diploma in Public Service Interpreting is desirable.

Provide a confidential, comprehensive, and sensitive interpreting service for patients, their relatives or carers and the Trust multi-professional teams on a face to face, telephone, visual conference basis.

Please see attached Job Description for full details of the role.

Hours of work will vary but generally bookings are between the hours of 8am – 5pm and out of hours on an ad-hoc basis including evening and weekend working, as and when required.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.
We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.
We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.
Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.
Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS FT specifically