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British Sign Language Interpreter
Grade: Band 6 - £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Location: Rampton Hospital, Retford
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Closing: 29/10/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are recruiting British Sign Language Interpreters, level 6, with a high level of proficiency, significant interpreting experience following RSLI registration and experience of working in a mental health setting.
We are looking for candidates who are compassionate, respectful, professional, and reliable. This means demonstrating a non-judgemental and caring attitude but also the ability to uphold both personal and workplace boundaries to ensure safety of self, patients, colleagues and the public.
Main duties of the job
- To undertake a range of sign language interpreting tasks for deaf and hearing people in a variety of settings as required. This includes interpreting in staff and patient meetings where both hearing and deaf staff are present.
- To contribute to the training of new staff on how to engage effectively with Deaf patients to achieve a positive outcome.
- To work as a member of the team to create a therapeutic deaf community.
- Ability to accurately process the source language into a target language without any omissions, additions or misleading factors which will alter the intended meaning.
- To expertise to convey complex meaning and emotions for participants who do not have shared language or not sufficiently fluent for the purpose of the interaction.
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