Bilingual Medical Interpreter

As a Bilingual Medical Interpreter, you will conduct medical and general interpreting between patients and medical professionals by listening and orally translating information into a patient's native language in layman's terms. Our medical interpreters improve understanding and compliance at each step the patient takes through their healthcare journey. If you have a passion for helping others, this is the role for you. Must be able to speak Spanish and English.

Successful Candidate will have: 

• High School Education/GED 
• Associates degree preferred
• Possess a certification as a Medical Interpreter
• Must be able to speak, read, and write English and Spanish fluently.

About Swope Health

Swope Health, the Kansas City region’s largest Federally Qualified Health Center, has provided comprehensive primary care, dental care and mental health services in the Greater Kansas City area for more than 56 years.

Recognized as a patient-centered medical home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, our commitment to an integrated model of healthcare aligns with our mission to improve community health and wellness through accessible, quality, comprehensive patient care.

Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities and The Joint Commission, we served nearly 56,000 patients in 2025 at 24 locations throughout the area, including Kansas City, Belton, Independence, North Kansas City, Hickman Mills, and Wyandotte and Leavenworth Counties in Kansas. Swope Health is a special place that cares for the people who need it most, wherever they are in the community.

As a Swope Health Associate you will be expected to help deliver on the Swope Health Promise of “We Make Care Visible”.

You will do this by V.I.S.I.B.L.E

• Valuing every person
• Impacting communities
• Serving with professionalism
• Inspiring Innovation
• Believing that healthcare is a basic human right
• Leading with accountability and praise
• Empowering Excellence