Medical Interpreter

Job Description

Title: Medical Interpreter

Company Name: Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Vacancy: --

Age: 18 to 59 years

Job Location: Cox`s Bazar

Salary: Tk. 39000 (Monthly)

Experience:

Published: 2024-10-29

Application Deadline: 2024-11-06

Education:

• HSC

• Age 18 to 59 years

• health knowledge advisable.
• No experience required.
• Essential, bilingual in both mission language and local languages and/or dialects

Main Purpose:

Verbal interpretation, in person or remotely, during daily medical activities (medical round, consultations, interviews, meetings, etc.) and written translations, from the mission language to local language(s) or vice versa, in order to ensure accurate, respectful, fluent and confidential communication between medical staff and local population.

Accountabilities:

• Inform medical staff about important cultural nuances to consider during a meeting, medical consultation or interview with local people.
• Participate in staff trainings and meetings as an interpreter.
• Provide face to face interpreting, as well as during telephone and radio calls or other telecom devices, when necessary.
• Adapt communication to any circumstances, using appropriate language registry as well as diplomatic and courtesy manners.
• Translate MSF internal / external documents into local language(s).
• Keep record of all translated documents.
• Look after all equipment provided, i.e. dictionaries or other books that belong to MSFEnsure confidentiality and medical secrecy.

Context Specific Accountabilities:

• This position will be in a hospital setting, on a roster with day and night shifts.The work location is Goyalmara mother & child hospital.

• Festival Bonus: 2

Two (2) annual leave days per month worked.

Medical insurance for employee and direct dependents.

2 Festival Bonuses (each one equivalent to 1 month`s basic salary) after completion of one year of uninterrupted continuous service.