Job Description

Location:

Avera Medical Group Health Care Clinic-Sioux Falls

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$20.75 - $31.50

Position Highlights

Monday-Friday Part time day hours (no weekends/no holidays)

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Responsible for relaying accurate medical information and facilitating the successful delivery of patient services to diverse language segments in compliance with all office clinic and hospital policies and procedures particularly relating to patient confidentiality and informed consent. Responsible for written translations required in patient encounters including but not limited to forms care instructions medication schedules patient letters or other identified documents and patient materials. Work with special projects as assigned.

What you will do

• Serves as the facilitator to successfully deliver language patient services to linguistically diverse consumers and functions as a cultural and linguistic resource to both patients and providers to contribute to successful outcomes.
• Provides a high level of customer service with a positive approach and performs duties in a spirit of teamwork and cooperation.
• Familiarity and ability to work with diverse cultural/social-economic backgrounds as well as general knowledge of cultural backgrounds.
• Provides written translations in patient encounters including completion of forms medical instructions and medication schedules; administrative translations such as letters to patients and other materials.
• Supports office operations by answering the phone checking voice mails and following up as needed.
• Taking and scheduling interpreter requests verifying and scheduling future appointments and documenting patient encounters.
• Facilitates special projects as assigned including but not limited to on-the-job training and mentoring of interpreter internships.
• Travel to various facilities may be required.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others hear understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge skills and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education License/Certification or Work Experience:

• Technical Certificate Proof of English/Spanish fluency both oral and written through certified accredited institution or to be established by passing interpreters skills test administered through Avera.
• Technical Certificate Individuals are required to pass a medical terminology test.

Preferred Education License/Certification or Work Experience:

• Some College Interpreter Training
• Some College Health Science
• Experience in a healthcare setting as a medical interpreter with strong medical vocabulary

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Averas mission vision core values and social principles to serve patients their families and our community.
• Promote Averas values of compassion hospitality and stewardship.
• Uphold Averas standards of Communication Attitude Responsiveness and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles laws regulations and standards associated with but not limited to CMS The Joint Commission DHHS and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.

• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement

• Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability Veteran Status or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application please call 1- or send an email to .

Job Tags

Full time, Part time, Work experience placement, Internship, Work at office, Monday to Friday, Shift work, Day shift,

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