Spanish Language Interpreter - Behavioral Sciences Campus
About The Position
UTHealth Houston's Behavioral Sciences Campus (BSC) is hiring a Spanish Language Interpreter! Our Behavioral Sciences Campus, the largest academic psychiatric hospital in the country, is comprised of John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center and Harris County Psychiatric Center, serving 27 counties. BSC offers individualized inpatient treatment for a variety of behavioral health disorders across its 23 on-site units, totaling 538 beds. These units include treatment in child/adolescent, adult/geriatric, co-occurring disease, psychosis, and competency restoration units. The Spanish Language Interpreter plays a critical role in ensuring patients' access to psychiatric services by utilizing strong English and Spanish writing and translation skills, with attention to grammar and accuracy, to support the delivery of essential, timely care. What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
Requirements
- Strong English and Spanish writing and translation skills strongly preferred.
- Associate's Degree required. May substitute required education with equivalent years of experience beyond the minimum experience requirement.
- 2 years of relevant experience required
- Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
- Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
Responsibilities
- Provides oral and written translation of diverse patient care-related material.
- Provides written translation of patient histories and other medical reports, patient education and instructional material, advance directives, medical documents and other institutional publications.
- Provides oral translation of discussions related to patient referral, new patient registration, financial evaluation, patient assessment, treatment planning, admissions, discharge, and other clinical and healthcare-related discussions.
- Interprets clinical, financial, psychosocial and ethical discussions related to patient care activities.
- Serves as a resource to patients, staff and care providers to contribute to successful patient outcomes.
- Performs on-call translation duties requiring immediate response to electronic paging.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- 100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
- Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
- The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
- Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
- Awesome retirement/pension plan
- Free financial and legal counseling
- Free mental health counseling services
- Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
- Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
- Resources for child and elder care
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
