Role Title: Content Developer Intern - Guidelines for Interpreters
Organisation: Mental Health Tribunal
Internship Period: Semester 2 (July – October)
Location: Perth CBD close to train station and Myers
To create document guides - 1 general one (3 pages?) for Interpreters that MHT books to attend Tribunal hearings and 1 (1 page?) for Interpreters of Indigenous languages. The MHT books an interpreter through an interpreting service, so they are qualified and trained. These guides will include terms, acronyms, outline the hearing process, who is who at a hearing and what is expected of the interpreter. Documents created will be put on our website and provided to the interpreting services to use.
Our mission is safeguarding rights and promoting compliance and accountability under the Mental Health Act 2014 by:
- ensuring involuntary treatment authorised under the Act strictly complies with the provisions and objects of the Act;
- determining applications for treatment by electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery;
- addressing non-compliance with prescribed requirements under the Act; and
- providing independent review of the validity of involuntary treatment orders, the admission of long-term voluntary patients, the validity and appropriateness of nominated persons, and the reasonableness of certain decisions under the Act restricting freedoms and affecting rights.