Certified Spanish Medical Translator Job Washington area,District of Columbia USA,Language/Bilingual

Job Overview

Under supervision, provides language translation services to patients, their families and staff for an array of medical documents including patient education materials, hospital forms, patient letters, medical consents, medical records, etc.

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum Work Experience

3 Years

Specific Requirements and Preferences

Translation, Linguistics or Related Field
Minimum of 3 years experience as a translator. Experience translating a wide array of medical related documents preferred

Required Skills/Knowledge

Bilingual capability and certified in Spanish Language Translation

Functional Accountabilities Promotes Appropriate Utilization of Translation Services by Staff

Educates staff in the process of how to appropriately request translation services

Maintains communication at all times with internal and external customers regarding progress, deliverables, delays, etc.

Works closely with other departments providing recommendations

Uses resources efficiently in order to maximize productivity and maintain costs low

Collaborates with the Manager of Patient and Family Education to streamline process

Contributes to a Well-Organized Program

Translates requests in a timely fashion to meet requestor needs and deadlines

Maintains required logs/tracking system in order to track project progress and productivity

Maintains translation statistics and performs analysis of program utilization and other metrics

Coordinates distribution of assignment based on program needs

Efficiently utilizes tools available to provide translations of the highest quality

Manages own time to be productive

Maintains archives and databases related to translation projects

Performance Improvement / Problem Solving

Identifies opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes

Identifies and resolves issues, overcoming challenges

Makes appropriate decisions, using sound judgement

Teamwork/Communication

Partners with all team members to achieve goals

Works effectively with diverse groups

Demonstrates accountability for work

Shares and seeks knowledge and provides feedback to others

Receptive to others ideas and opinions

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