This session is aimed at early career interpreters and those new to ATW interpreting

Work done by interpreter practitioners as a whole is predominantly in Access to Work settings . Given the importance of ATW work to your career, income and customers, it’s worth taking a little time to explore this area.

This 2.5 hour interactive webinar covers the essentials to make ATW interpreting work for you and your customers, including:

• What is ATW?
• How is ATW work different from other work and why does that matter? (Contracts, payments and risk).
• Accepting work and working within my competency.
• How do I work out what I should I charge - budgets, quoting and agreeing fees?
• Staying healthy – remote v. face to face working, working conditions and breaks.
• ATW finances - Invoicing & staying on top of payments
• Invoicing, and what to include on my invoice (including for cancellations)?
• An intro to the AtW customer claims portal.
• When and how do I sign claim forms? (Including an introduction to protecting yourself from potential fraud).
• What do I do if there are problems with payments?

Participants will be invited to send their ATW questions to Darren before the workshop. These questions may shape the above program.

This session will be delivered in English, with BSL interpreters if required (please indicate if needed when booking). This session will not be recorded.

To reduce instances of non attendance, a minimal fee of £5 is applied to this booking. Participants will receive 2.5 CPD points.