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ORGANISATION |
Northern Ireland Health and Social Care Interpreting Service |
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1st Floor Graham Clinic
Knockbracken Healthcare Park
Saintfield Road
Belfast
BT8 8BH |
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Office Hours: 9.00am - 5.00 pm |
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Out of Hours Service: 5.00pm - 9.00 am and Weekends and Public Holidays |
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NIHSCIS must be the first point of contact for all face to face interpreting.
The Belfast Trust provides a Regional Interpreting Service for all Health &
Social Care Organisations throughout Northern Ireland.
The primary aim of the service is to significantly improve access to Health and Social Services for members of black and minority ethnic communities
in Northern Ireland who do not speak English either as a first or competent second
language.
As the only health specialised service in the country, the NIHSSIS should be
the first point of call for any practitioners, from any of the Health Trusts in
Northern Ireland, when the need of using a face-to-face Interpreter is identified.
The Regional Interpreting Service is based at Belfast Trust, 1
st Floor Graham House, Knockbracken Healthcare Park, Saintfield Road, Belfast, BT8 8BH
The Regional Interpreting Service provides:
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24 hour Service
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Face-to-face Interpreting only
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Free-of-charge to Health & Social Care practitioners and patients
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Has 318 Trained, professional interpreters
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Has interpreting in 36 Registered Languages
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The most requested Languages - Polish, Lithuanian, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)
and Portuguese
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“working well with interpreters” training sessions for users
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a training DVD entitled “working well with interpreters”
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the Certificate in Community Interpreting, level 3 accredited, training for interpreters
who wish to work within health & social care organisations.
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Arranging an Interpreter
Stages
- Identify Interpreter need.
You can use the language identification cards to identify the need for an interpreter
and the language requested. (see below)
- Arranging a face-to-face Interpreter for a pre-booked appointment (please see
staff guidelines for working with Interpreters page).
- Arranging an Interpreter for an emergency appointment - Please call the Interpreting
Service in the first instance to check if an interpreter is available. If NIHSCIS is
unable to provide, please use Telephone Interpreting (The Big Word) or contact
one of the agencies listed below.
- Booking and Preparing for dealing with Interpreters.
(please see staff guidelines for working with Interpreters page).
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Languages offered:
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Tagalog
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Thai
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Ukranian
- Urdu
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ORGANISATION |
NICEM: Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities |
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ADDRESS |
3rd Floor Ascot House
24-31 Shaftesbury Square
Belfast
BT2 7DB |
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TELEPHONE NUMBER |
02890 238645 |
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Opening Times |
9.30am – 5pm (Mon-Thur)
9.30am – 3pm (Fri) |
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Nature of work/service:
- Capacity building for ethnic minority community groups
- Policy and information on race equality and Section 75
- Anti-racism and anti-discrimination training
- Immigration, asylum and refugee services
- Provides accredited training for community interpreters
- Ethnic Minorities Health Advocacy Project
- Advocacy and advice on racial harassment, racial attack and racial discrimination
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NICEM Training Programme for Community Interpreters
NICEM offers courses in partnership with Making Training Work, a training consultancy
based in London specialising in language and basic training skills. On successful completion of the different courses candidates are invited to join
NICEM's Register of Community Interpreters and Translators, which provides interpreting
services to the statutory and voluntary sectors in areas such as social security,
healthcare and education.
To find out more about the Interpreting and Translation Service please contact:
Tel: 028 9023 8645 |
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ADDRESS
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Filor Building, Twin Spires Centre,
155 Northumberland Street,
Belfast, BT13 2JF |
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TELEPHONE NUMBER |
028 9072 7878 |
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Opening Times |
8.30am – 17.00pm Mon-Fri
Evenings
Contact organisation for details
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As of 17
th June 2011, ownership of Flex Language Services has been transferred to Ortus (www.ortus.org). Ortus is a business development agency based in Belfast and they are committed to developing and expanding our
services within Northern Ireland, we will be rebranding and will have a new logo
and website very soon.
The translation and interpreting service can facilitate when there is a need
for help with the translating of general company literature, technical or other
specialist documents, or interpreting during conferences or company visits by
customers from abroad. |
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ORGANISATION |
S.T.E.P. Interpreting & Translation Services |
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ADDRESS
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S.T.E.P.
Unit T7,
2 Coalisland Rd,
Dungannon,
BT71 6JT |
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TELEPHONE NUMBER |
(028) 877 29002
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FAX NUMBER |
(028) 877 50212 |
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Opening Times |
9.30am – 3.30pm ONLY
Evenings
Contact organisation for details
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The South Tyrone Empowerment Programme (STEP) was established in 1997. It is
a not for profit community development organisation based in Dungannon, Northern
Ireland.
STEP Training and Learning provides interpreting and translation services throughout
Northern Ireland, with currently 250 interpreters available across the region,
our interpreting service covers 30 languages. Languages range from Russian to
Tetum, Lithuanian to Polish.
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