Health Care Interpreter Service
Services
SWAHS Health Care Interpreter Service aims to assist CALD clients access health services by providing:
- 24 hour on site interpreting
- 24 hour telephone interpreting
- Videoconferencing (available during normal business hours)
Other services include:
- Interpreting at home visits (for health care providers who are visiting their patients/clients at home)
- Interpreting for groups
- Translation of patients’ health related documents
- Provision of information regarding clients’ cultural background to health care providers
- Orientation training for new SWAHS employees on how to work with interpreters
- In Service training sessions as requested by various service users
- Calling clients on behalf of health care providers to advise them of a new appointment or a change to an existing one.
HCIS also offers work experience placements for TAFE or university students in Interpreting and Translating Courses
Last updated: 6th March, 2007
