Sussex Interpreting Services provides high quality, professional Community Linguistic Services  (Interpreting,Translation, Social Prescribing,Advocacy and Research) with exceptional customer service, 24 hours a day, 7 days per week (as appropriate).

We work with 175 trained and accredited, locally‐based self-employed sessional linguists in 52 different languages who have regular peer  support sessions and service briefings.

SIS works with 500+ public service / community sector departments across Sussex delivering social care and health equality for vulnerable Service Users.

SIS uniquely offers a self‐referral service for service users to request services directly by phone, on-line or in person.

We are dedicated to quality: delivering reliable, accurate, responsive, confidential, impartial and culturally sensitive services.

Our commitment to quality is organisation wide with an emphasis on learning and continuous improvement.

SIS is meeting and out‐performing against service delivery targets for effectiveness, outcomes and impact.  These are monitored, evaluated and reported on a quarterly basis.

SIS uses surveys, focus groups, and feedback via our rigorous complaints procedure to review services and drive development and improvements.

SIS holds a number of external quality marks.

As a registered charity SIS has transparent working practices and is accountable to a membership drawn from stakeholder groups; public services, self-employed sessional linguists, services users and local BAME communities.