Volunteer Interpreter Role

The Volunteer Interpreter role is to bridge language gaps, enabling effective communication or other languages between non-English speaking individuals and the organisation’s staff and volunteers. This role is essential in ensuring inclusivity, equity, and accessibility for all members of the community, regardless of their language proficiency. A volunteer interpreter role plays a critical part in making the services more accessible and effective for non-English speaking individuals. You could be helping members of your community who do not speak English to communicate with others in their neighbourhood. You could be helping non-English speakers deal with essential situations where they need to speak to official people, such as doctors or solicitors. You could help a non-English speaker learn how to speak English by encouraging them to take classes and helping them with basic phrases.

What skills do I need?

• Knowledge of at least one of the following languages in addition to English: Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish, Mandarin, Pashtu, Punjabi, Turkish, Urdu, Bengali and Welsh
• Good communication skills.
• Experience of working with ethnic minority communities would be an advantage.
• Good people skills.
• Good problem-solving skills.