Paul Michaels

Registered Sign Language Interpreter
(Registration Expires: 30/04/2025)
Photo ID Card No: 100025X

Weekdays Evenings Weekends
Contact no 07947 534 833
Text only No
Email address paul.michaels@me.com

The information provided below is additional to registration requirements and therefore has not been verified by NRCPD.

Memberships

Organisation Date joined
Association of Sign Language Interpreters (ASLI) 01/04/2009
European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters 19/09/2009
NUBSLI 01/08/2015
British Sociological Association 04/10/2016
Visual Language Professionals (VLP) 08/09/2018

Additional qualifications

Type Qualification Date achieved
Communication / Language Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced BSL & Related Studies 04/07/2008
Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Interpreting BSL/English 07/02/2011
Professional Masters Degree by Research 08/04/2015
Specialist Professional Diploma in Supervision for Sign Language Interpreters and Allied Professionals 03/03/2018
Specialist Professional TSLI Supervisor 01/04/2018
Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Interpreting with the Deaf Community 03/07/2009
Professional Level 3 Certificate In Assessing Vocational Achievement (CAVA) 13/04/2022

Employments

Start date End date Job title Employer
01/01/2009 Junior Trainee Interpreter
07/02/2011 MRSLI
28/03/2022 Assessor (CAVA)
13/11/2018 NRCPD Supervisor
31/03/2018 Professional Supervisor

General Info

In addition to offering sign language interpreting, I am also a qualified professional supervisor (http://www.labyrinthsupervision.com/paul.html) and an NRCPD supervisor. I qualified as an assessor in March 2022 with a Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (CAVA) which has replaced the old A1 Assessor qualification.

Twitter: twitter.com/bslinterpreter
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/paulmichaelsbsl
Facebook: facebook.com/paul.michaels.391

Assignments

Education
Schools, e.g. classroom, staff meetings/training, parents' meetings
Adult Education, i.e. 'leisure' courses
Further Education
Higher Education and professional
SEN tribunals
Leisure
Sport indoor
Social events, e.g. wedding reception
Sport outdoor, outdoor pursuits
Mental Health
Clinical meetings
Therapy/treatment
Clinical interviews, e.g. mental state examinations, assessments
Tribunals
Health and Social Services
Physical health, e.g. GPs, hospitals, physio, opticians, dentists, health visitors, ante-natal
Community consultation meetings
Housing
Child protection case conferences
Social Services casework
Social Services home visits and assessments
Theatre, Arts, Television
Workshops or training, arts, TV
Theatre/opera performance, musicals, pantomime, comedy, etc
Talks, e.g. gallery, museum
Deaf cabaret
Television on screen, i.e. front of camera
Legal and Quasijudicial
Prison or probation
Solicitors'/barristers' meetings, law centres
Tribunals, e.g. DLA appeals, employment, immigration
Memorandum interviews with children and vulnerable adults
Courts, e.g. magistrates, crown, civil
Police interviews (including customs and immigration)
Employment
Training/professional development
Work support, e.g. telephone interpreting, meetings, correspondence, supervision
Disciplinary proceedings - employment
Interviews
Other Specialisms
Telephone
Children and young people
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual
Conferences and large meetings
Usher
Religion specified, e.g. services, weddings, funerals
Disabilities, i.e. deaf people with disabilities
Disability politics
Video telephony, i.e. remote, distance
Minimal language skills clients
Political
Driving test