Volunteer Car Driver

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A community health organization is seeking volunteer car drivers to assist elderly patients transport to various appointments. This role requires a clean driving license and a caring disposition. Volunteers will help ensure patients arrive on time and maintain records of their journeys. Flexibility, patience, and effective communication are essential, especially with older adults who may have difficulties.

Benefits

Travel reimbursement within certain boroughs

Lunch or subsistence costs up to £5

Qualifications

• Be over 25 with a clean driving licence.
• Must be flexible, tolerant to change and patient.

Responsibilities

• Transport patients to and from their appointments.
• Keep a record of mileage and jobs carried out.
• Behave in a professional manner at all times.
• Communicate with elderly patients who may have specific difficulties.

Skills

Patient nature

Competent driving

Flexibility

Tolerance to change

Education

Clean driving licence

Job description

Details about the placement (what it offers etc):

Attend support and supervision sessions (a minimum of 1 session every 3 months)

Able to commit to regular hours of volunteering and must be able to volunteer for a minimum of a 6 month period

Must be available to attend training as required for the placement and or personal development

You will be reimbursed for travel within the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich ( must provide original receipts if using public transport) and you can also claim for lunch or other subsistence costs ( maximum of £5 per day) if your volunteering exceeds 4 hours in a day( please refer to volunteers policy for further details).

Main duties of the job

To pick up patients and transport them to various appointments and therapy groups ensuring punctuality. To be able to help patients into and out of volunteers car. To reports any accidents or untoward incidents to the Voluntary Services Manager immediately.

• Transport patients to and from their appointment
• Keep a record of mileage, patients details & jobs carried out, to submit regularly for expense
• Behaving at all times in a professional manner

About us

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

Volunteer car drivers need to be competent drivers, be very patient and have a caring nature.

Working with elderly mentally ill patients is not essential but would be and advantage.

• Transport patients to and from their appointment
• Keep a record of mileage, patients details & jobs carried out, to submit regularly for expense
• Behaving at all times in a professional manner
• Be confident when communicating with an older person who may have specific difficulties, such as hearing and sight loss

Person Specification

communication

Qualifications

• Be over 25 with a clean driving licence

Skills

• Be flexible, tolerant to change and patient

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Depending on experienceThis is an unpaid voluntary role