Freelance BSL interpreters
St Andrew’s Healthcare
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Job summary
St Andrews Healthcare, Northampton, are looking for freelance BSL interpreters to join our pool.
St Andrews Healthcare is the largest national charitable provider of specialist mental health services in the UK. We provide psychiatric assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for adults with mental health problems, learning disabilities and brain injuries.
Within St. Andrews Northampton site, the Deaf service includes medium secure, low secure and community based houses for either male or female patients. We provide individualised treatment and care, utilising a person centred approach.
Our goal is to put the Deaf Service Users needs at the heart of everything we do, building an innovative culture of clinical expertise.
We are very keen to build up our pool of specialist Mental Health freelance BSL Interpreters.
Main duties of the job
Interpreters working in this environment will need to be registered with NRCPD as fully qualified and have at least 2 years experience of working at that level. Experience of mental health work is desirable but not essential and can be learned on the job there will be shadowing opportunities.
Our service is 24 hours, so duration of assignments can vary depending on day of the week and ward. We also require interpreters to cover Access to Work bookings. There is plenty of variety and availability of interpreting work on offer.
We have a wide range of domains within this setting such as therapy sessions, assessments, tribunals/hearings (working with our Deaf Social Workers), internal and external meetings, patient outings and generally facilitating communication between non-signing staff and Deaf staff/patients.
About us
You can achieve more at St Andrews Healthcare
St Andrews Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare services. We work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs.
Interpreters are required to work on site due to the nature of St Andrews work.
As part of the interpreting pool, you will be given the opportunity to access monthly online group supervision with a highly specialist Supervisor. There are also CPD training opportunities that you will be able to access.
This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a team of skilled and committed professionals and to become an integral member of a multidisciplinary team.
If you have any questions or wish to apply, please email Shirley Farthing: sfarthing@stah.org
We look forward to hearing from you!
Date posted
11 May 2023
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience Dependent on experience
Contract
Bank
Working pattern
Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours, Term time hours, Annualised hours
Reference number
B0354-STAH35193
Job locations
St. Andrews
Billing Road
Northampton
NN1 5DG
Employer details
Employer name
St Andrew’s Healthcare
Address
St. Andrews
Billing Road
Northampton
NN1 5DG
Employer's website
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