Volunteer Car Driver

Job summary

Volunteer Car Driver

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

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Memorial Hospital

London

SE18 3RG

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Memorial Hospital

London

SE18 3RG

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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