Medical Interpreter – Chinese (Cantonese and Other Dialects)
Tufts Medicine · Boston, MA · 1 mo ago
Information Technology$23.04–$28.8/hrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: Use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We have content: Job Profile Summary (maybe About the role). Job Overview (maybe About the role). Job Description includes Minimum Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Duties and Responsibilities, Physical Requirements, Skills & Abilities, Pay Range. Also mention "At Tufts Medicine..." about compensation philosophy, but we have Pay Range. Benefits not mentioned; schedule not mentioned. So we should include sections: About the role (maybe combine Job Profile Summary and Job Overview). Responsibilities (Duties and Responsibilities). Requirements (Minimum Qualifications). Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications). Skills (Skills & Abilities). Pay (Pay Range). No Benefits or Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Use
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We have content: Job Profile Summary (maybe About the role). Job Overview (maybe About the role). Job Description includes Minimum Qualifications, Preferred Qualifications, Duties and Responsibilities, Physical Requirements, Skills & Abilities, Pay Range. Also mention "At Tufts Medicine..." about compensation philosophy, but we have Pay Range. Benefits not mentioned; schedule not mentioned. So we should include sections: About the role (maybe combine Job Profile Summary and Job Overview). Responsibilities (Duties and Responsibilities). Requirements (Minimum Qualifications). Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications). Skills (Skills & Abilities). Pay (Pay Range). No Benefits or Schedule.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include details: Job Profile Summary text, Job Overview text, Minimum Qualifications bullet list, Preferred Qualifications bullet list, Duties and Responsibilities bullet list, Physical Requirements maybe as prose? It's a list of physical requirements; could be
- . Skills & Abilities as list. Pay Range as prose.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep all details.
Let's extract content.
Job Profile Summary:
"This role focuses on performing activities associated with evaluating, developing, recommending, implementing, and carrying out the policies and procedures related to the delivery of high-quality patient care. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Language Services duties: Listens to, understands, translates and provides support to those individuals with physical or mental impairments when it comes to language, such as speech therapy or speaking a foreign language. A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs. The majority of time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education. An experienced level role that applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience. Works independently with general supervision, problems faced are difficult but typically not complex, and may influence others within the job area through explanation of facts, policies and practices."
Job Overview:
"Under general supervision, this position provides accurate interpretation for patient/families who have Limited English Proficiency (LEP). This position interprets the spoken language and culture between two or more individuals from English to the target language and back into English again to ensure accurate cross-language communication in a medical environment. May be required to translate written documents from English into the target language or from the target language into English. Acts as culture broker to identify when cultural differences are leading to a misunderstanding on the part of either the provider or patient. Language services are performed in designated areas according to the policies, procedures, philosophy, and objectives of the department and hospital. Works cooperatively within department and other services to create a system of quality health care."
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Medical Interpreter Certification from an accredited college or university OR Certification from a Medical Interpreter training course and successful completion of a third-party medical interpreter competency exam
- One (1) year of relevant interpreting experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- National Certification for Medical Interpreters
- Three (3) years of relevant experience.
Duties and Responsibilities:
List:
- Interprets the spoken language from English into the target language and from the target language into English for patients, physicians and staff.
- Combines the ability to interpret both culture and language.
- Participates in family meetings with social workers to assist in completing forms, obtaining financial aid for clients, transferring patients, etc.
- Contacts non-English speaking patients to obtain consent signatures, give notification of appointments, and explain procedures, diagnosis, medical history, etc.
- May accompany non-English speaking patients to operating room or other departments when presence is needed.
- May participate in patient/client care conferences.
- Translates correspondence, brochures, documents and special diagnostic procedures from English into the target language.
- May be required to take on-call requests to be available for emergencies at night and on weekends.
- Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues in order to effectively contribute to the working groups achievement of goals, and to help foster a positive work environment
- Adhere to applicable policies, procedures as they pertain to patient/client care and to applicable personnel qualifications.
- Demonstrates a knowledge and understanding of what to report to the CEO or Chief Compliance Officer when concerns of corporate compliance arise.
- Ensures compliance within guidelines set forth by regulatory agencies (DPH, ERISA etc.) and demonstrates compliance with Home Health Foundation policies and procedures.
- Practices confidentiality principles set by the agency and federal HIPAA/HITECH guidelines.
- Participates in all mandatory in-services
Physical Requirements:
List:
- Prolonged, extensive, or regularly standing/walking.
- Regularly lifts and/or move 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
- Frequently requires reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, and climbing stairs.
- Frequent exposure to hazardous chemicals, sick patients, bodily substances, noise and possible exposure to radiation, lasers, electric shock, etc.
- Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases and other transmissible infections.
- Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances.
- Specific vision abilities apply including close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Skills & Abilities:
List:
- Ability to read/write and communicate in both languages.
- Ability to provide effective and clear interpretation and communication.
- Advanced knowledge in areas of interpreting techniques and medical terminology, basic anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures and treatments in both English and target language.
- High degree of courtesy and tact required in regular contacts with patients and their families involving patient related information of a sensitive and or/confidential nature.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to function well in very busy situations.
- Responsible and reliable.
- Good organization skills.
Pay Range:
"Pay Range: $23.04 - $28.80 based on full-time equivalent"
Also there is some text about compensation philosophy etc. Might be considered part of Pay section? It's about compensation philosophy but not specific numbers. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Could combine compensation philosophy into Pay section as prose. But we must not invent or summarize away detail. We could include that paragraph as part of Pay section prose. However the instruction says: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." The posting does state Pay Range, and also includes a paragraph about compensation philosophy. That's still about pay, so we can include it in Pay section.
Thus Pay section will contain both the paragraph and the Pay Range.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Structure:
About the role
Job Profile Summary text...
Job Overview text...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Medical Interpreter Certification from an accredited college or university OR Certification from a Medical Interpreter training course and successful completion of a third-party medical interpreter competency exam
- One (1) year of relevant interpreting experience
Qualifications
- National Certification for Medical Interpreters
- Three (3) years of relevant experience.
Skills
- Ability to read/write and communicate in both languages.
- Ability to provide effective and clear interpretation and communication.
- Advanced knowledge in areas of interpreting techniques and medical terminology, basic anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures and treatments in both English and target language.
- High degree of courtesy and tact required in regular contacts with patients and their families involving patient related information of a sensitive and or/confidential nature.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to function well in very busy situations.
- Responsible and reliable.
- Good organization skills.
Pay
At Tufts Medicine, we want every individual to feel valued for the skills and experience they bring. Our compensation philosophy is designed to offer fair, competitive pay that attracts, retains, and motivates highly talented individuals, while rewarding the important work you do every day. The base pay ranges reflect the minimum qualifications for the role. Individual offers are determined using a comprehensive approach that considers relevant experience, certifications, education, skills, and internal equity to ensure compensation is fair, consistent, and aligned with our business goals. Beyond base pay, Tufts Medicine provides a comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports your health, financial security, and career growth—one of the many ways we invest in you so you can thrive both at work and outside of it.
Pay Range: $23.04 - $28.80 based on full-time equivalent
We should not include Physical Requirements section? It's substantive; we could include as a section maybe "Physical Requirements". But the allowed headings list includes only those specific headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Physical Requirements is not in the list, so we should not create a heading for it. However we need to preserve all substantive information. Where to put physical requirements? Could incorporate into Responsibilities or Requirements? Probably better to add as a subsection under Responsibilities? But the instruction says use those headings only for those sections. It didn't forbid adding other headings? It says: "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It gives examples but not exclusive list. However later: "IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". It doesn't forbid other headings. But to be safe, we could incorporate physical requirements into Responsibilities or maybe under Requirements? However physical requirements are not exactly requirements (like qualifications). Could be part of Responsibilities? Might be odd. Perhaps we can add a section "Physical Requirements" as an even though not in the example list; the instruction didn't forbid. It said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The "e.g." suggests those are examples, not exclusive. So we can add Physical Requirements heading.
Similarly Skills & Abilities we already have Skills.
Thus we will add Physical Requirements section.
We must not include Benefits or Schedule as they are not present.
Thus final HTML:
About the role
Job Profile Summary...
Job Overview...
Responsibilities
...
Requirements
...
Qualifications
...
Skills
...
Physical Requirements
...
Pay
...
Pay Range: $23.04 - $28.80 based on full-time equivalent
Make sure to preserve all details exactly as given, including punctuation.
Let's copy the texts exactly.
Job Profile Summary text:
"This role focuses on performing activities associated with evaluating, developing, recommending, implementing, and carrying out the policies and procedures related to the delivery of high-quality patient care. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Language Services duties: Listens to, understands, translates
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include details: Job Profile Summary text, Job Overview text, Minimum Qualifications bullet list, Preferred Qualifications bullet list, Duties and Responsibilities bullet list, Physical Requirements maybe as prose? It's a list of physical requirements; could be
- . Skills & Abilities as list. Pay Range as prose.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep all details.
Let's extract content.
Job Profile Summary:
"This role focuses on performing activities associated with evaluating, developing, recommending, implementing, and carrying out the policies and procedures related to the delivery of high-quality patient care. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Language Services duties: Listens to, understands, translates and provides support to those individuals with physical or mental impairments when it comes to language, such as speech therapy or speaking a foreign language. A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs. The majority of time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education. An experienced level role that applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience. Works independently with general supervision, problems faced are difficult but typically not complex, and may influence others within the job area through explanation of facts, policies and practices."
Job Overview:
"Under general supervision, this position provides accurate interpretation for patient/families who have Limited English Proficiency (LEP). This position interprets the spoken language and culture between two or more individuals from English to the target language and back into English again to ensure accurate cross-language communication in a medical environment. May be required to translate written documents from English into the target language or from the target language into English. Acts as culture broker to identify when cultural differences are leading to a misunderstanding on the part of either the provider or patient. Language services are performed in designated areas according to the policies, procedures, philosophy, and objectives of the department and hospital. Works cooperatively within department and other services to create a system of quality health care."
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Medical Interpreter Certification from an accredited college or university OR Certification from a Medical Interpreter training course and successful completion of a third-party medical interpreter competency exam
- One (1) year of relevant interpreting experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- National Certification for Medical Interpreters
- Three (3) years of relevant experience.
Duties and Responsibilities:
List:
- Interprets the spoken language from English into the target language and from the target language into English for patients, physicians and staff.
- Combines the ability to interpret both culture and language.
- Participates in family meetings with social workers to assist in completing forms, obtaining financial aid for clients, transferring patients, etc.
- Contacts non-English speaking patients to obtain consent signatures, give notification of appointments, and explain procedures, diagnosis, medical history, etc.
- May accompany non-English speaking patients to operating room or other departments when presence is needed.
- May participate in patient/client care conferences.
- Translates correspondence, brochures, documents and special diagnostic procedures from English into the target language.
- May be required to take on-call requests to be available for emergencies at night and on weekends.
- Maintains collaborative, team relationships with peers and colleagues in order to effectively contribute to the working groups achievement of goals, and to help foster a positive work environment
- Adhere to applicable policies, procedures as they pertain to patient/client care and to applicable personnel qualifications.
- Demonstrates a knowledge and understanding of what to report to the CEO or Chief Compliance Officer when concerns of corporate compliance arise.
- Ensures compliance within guidelines set forth by regulatory agencies (DPH, ERISA etc.) and demonstrates compliance with Home Health Foundation policies and procedures.
- Practices confidentiality principles set by the agency and federal HIPAA/HITECH guidelines.
- Participates in all mandatory in-services
Physical Requirements:
List:
- Prolonged, extensive, or regularly standing/walking.
- Regularly lifts and/or move 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
- Frequently requires reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, and climbing stairs.
- Frequent exposure to hazardous chemicals, sick patients, bodily substances, noise and possible exposure to radiation, lasers, electric shock, etc.
- Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases and other transmissible infections.
- Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances.
- Specific vision abilities apply including close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Skills & Abilities:
List:
- Ability to read/write and communicate in both languages.
- Ability to provide effective and clear interpretation and communication.
- Advanced knowledge in areas of interpreting techniques and medical terminology, basic anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures and treatments in both English and target language.
- High degree of courtesy and tact required in regular contacts with patients and their families involving patient related information of a sensitive and or/confidential nature.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to function well in very busy situations.
- Responsible and reliable.
- Good organization skills.
Pay Range:
"Pay Range: $23.04 - $28.80 based on full-time equivalent"
Also there is some text about compensation philosophy etc. Might be considered part of Pay section? It's about compensation philosophy but not specific numbers. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Could combine compensation philosophy into Pay section as prose. But we must not invent or summarize away detail. We could include that paragraph as part of Pay section prose. However the instruction says: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." The posting does state Pay Range, and also includes a paragraph about compensation philosophy. That's still about pay, so we can include it in Pay section.
Thus Pay section will contain both the paragraph and the Pay Range.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Structure:
About the role
Job Profile Summary text...
Job Overview text...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Medical Interpreter Certification from an accredited college or university OR Certification from a Medical Interpreter training course and successful completion of a third-party medical interpreter competency exam
- One (1) year of relevant interpreting experience
Qualifications
- National Certification for Medical Interpreters
- Three (3) years of relevant experience.
Skills
- Ability to read/write and communicate in both languages.
- Ability to provide effective and clear interpretation and communication.
- Advanced knowledge in areas of interpreting techniques and medical terminology, basic anatomy and physiology, diagnostic procedures and treatments in both English and target language.
- High degree of courtesy and tact required in regular contacts with patients and their families involving patient related information of a sensitive and or/confidential nature.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to function well in very busy situations.
- Responsible and reliable.
- Good organization skills.
Pay
At Tufts Medicine, we want every individual to feel valued for the skills and experience they bring. Our compensation philosophy is designed to offer fair, competitive pay that attracts, retains, and motivates highly talented individuals, while rewarding the important work you do every day. The base pay ranges reflect the minimum qualifications for the role. Individual offers are determined using a comprehensive approach that considers relevant experience, certifications, education, skills, and internal equity to ensure compensation is fair, consistent, and aligned with our business goals. Beyond base pay, Tufts Medicine provides a comprehensive Total Rewards package that supports your health, financial security, and career growth—one of the many ways we invest in you so you can thrive both at work and outside of it.
Pay Range: $23.04 - $28.80 based on full-time equivalent
We should not include Physical Requirements section? It's substantive; we could include as a section maybe "Physical Requirements". But the allowed headings list includes only those specific headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Physical Requirements is not in the list, so we should not create a heading for it. However we need to preserve all substantive information. Where to put physical requirements? Could incorporate into Responsibilities or Requirements? Probably better to add as a subsection under Responsibilities? But the instruction says use those headings only for those sections. It didn't forbid adding other headings? It says: "Usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It gives examples but not exclusive list. However later: "IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text". It doesn't forbid other headings. But to be safe, we could incorporate physical requirements into Responsibilities or maybe under Requirements? However physical requirements are not exactly requirements (like qualifications). Could be part of Responsibilities? Might be odd. Perhaps we can add a section "Physical Requirements" as an
even though not in the example list; the instruction didn't forbid. It said "use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The "e.g." suggests those are examples, not exclusive. So we can add Physical Requirements heading. Similarly Skills & Abilities we already have Skills. Thus we will add Physical Requirements section. We must not include Benefits or Schedule as they are not present. Thus final HTML:
About the role
Job Profile Summary...
Job Overview...
Responsibilities
- ...
Requirements
- ...
Qualifications
- ...
Skills
- ...
Physical Requirements
- ...
Pay
...
Pay Range: $23.04 - $28.80 based on full-time equivalent
Make sure to preserve all details exactly as given, including punctuation. Let's copy the texts exactly. Job Profile Summary text: "This role focuses on performing activities associated with evaluating, developing, recommending, implementing, and carrying out the policies and procedures related to the delivery of high-quality patient care. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Language Services duties: Listens to, understands, translates