Self-Employed Linguists

Are you fluent in English and another language? Would you like to use your language skills to help communities in Sussex?

We’re looking to enrol Community Interpreters into our existing pool.

SIS delivers face to face, video and telephone interpreting in 49 languages in the heart of the community.

Sessions take place remotely and face to face throughout Sussex in a range of health, social care and voluntary sector settings.

Sessions are offered on a freelance basis so there is great flexibility to do as much or as little as you like.

We engage the services of Self-Employed Linguists when we identify a need. This need could arise due to an increase in demand for a particular language or an increase is demand in a certain geographical area or because a linguist has moved out of the area.  It could also be because we have a new service user who speaks a language that we do not currently have in our interpreting pool.

Desired skills & experience

• Existing interpreting accredited training & qualifications
• Fluency in English and target language(s)
• Understanding and empathy with the client group and its culture, and with the public service agencies and their cultures
• Knowledge of public service agencies
• Knowledge of client rights and equal opportunities
• Ability to apply standard interpreting techniques in a range of settings
• An ability to listen actively
• Appropriate assertiveness skills
• Appreciation of confidentiality and impartiality
• Basic research skills
  

We will look at the CVs of potential Self-Employed Linguists and select them using the criteria listed above.

Selected linguists will be contacted for an informal screening call. Those successful at the screening call will be given a copy of the SIS consultancy agreement.

Each new Self-Employed Linguist will also have their language(s) assessed by professional language assessors.

send your cv

You can send us your CV using the form below.