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To assist the housekeeper with duties, as detailed below. To give companionship to patients, dementia companion volunteers are welcomed to the ward to engage with all patients including those living with dementia. Volunteers also to assist in facilitating communication between patient and family with the use of the ward iPad.
Skills Required
Volunteer Tasks & Responsibilities
The Role does not allow a volunteer to:
Volunteer Tasks & Responsibilities
The hosptial has become busy once again with patients coming into the hospital for clinic appointments. Patients have been found wandering around the hospital lost, due to some clinics relocating. Volunteer are required to approach them and ask if they know where to go and if they need assistance. This must be done from 2metres apart.
Please note with regards to assisting patients who require a wheelchair, volunteers can assist patients in an emergency or if there are no available porters. The volunteer must wear appropriate PPE (mask only), try to maintain socially distancing as much as possible and must have received wheelchair handling training.
Skills Required
The Role does not allow a volunteer to:
Volunteer Tasks & Responsibilities:
The role requires volunteers to support different departments Administration Teams, this entails:
This is not an exhaustive list of tasks and responsibiities. Each department and clinic has it's own requirements, and a full role description will be given to you before you start an admin support role.
Skills Required:
Any other tasks must first be cleared with the key staff contact and
the Volunteer Team Manager
Please note that this role does not include:
Volunteer Tasks & Responsibilities:
The emergency department requires volunteer support with the following
Volunteers will be provided with necessary PPE as well as patient surveys and necessary stationery.
Skills Required:
Any other duties/tasks must first be cleared with the key staff contact and
the Volunteer Team Manager.
Volunteer Tasks & Responsibilities
Skills Required
The Role does not allow a volunteer to:
Shop Trolley Service
Skills Required
Volunteers are expected to use hand gel before and after leaving each ward and adhere to the bare below the elbows policy ie no bracelets/watches and rings apart from wedding rings.
Volunteer Tasks & Responsibilities:
Volunteers will take the shop trolley to patients who are unable to visit the hospital shop.
The shop trolley leaves each morning from 9:30am-12:00pm and again in the afternoon from 1:30-4:00pm.
The shop staff (WH Smith) will be responsible for ensuring the correct stock is on the trolley.
The Volunteer Team are responsible for who is assigned on the Volunteer daily rota to assist on the shop trolley.
On arrival the volunteers should sign in at the Volunteers Office and then report to the Shop manager with their ID badge.
WH Smith staff are responsible for the stocking of the trolley and preparation of the float. There will be hand gel and a calculator provided on the trolley.
Volunteers will be expected to make a note of every item sold and how much it cost and tick off on the stock list. This will be handed back to the shop at the end of the shift together with the float.
Volunteers are expected to take their time with patients and chat to them while doing the rounds.
The Role does not allow a volunteer to:
Handling patients’ wallets/purses without a witness.
Leave the hospital building whilst accompanying a patient
Have access to confidential medical records
Undertake any cleaning
Stock the trolley or take stock from the shop without permission from WH Smith Staff.
Exchange personal contact details with patients or visitors.
All our volunteers are asked whilst volunteering to wear purple uniformed tops, ID badges and refrain from using their mobile phones.
Please adhere to all Policies as per the Volunteer Agreement.
Pets as Therapy & Therapaws are registered charities and the Royal Free Charity’s Volunteer Team has registered and had vetted dogs from them for several years and follow the following protocols.
The primary aim of Pets As Therapy and Therapaws is to bring regular animal companionship and comfort to patients/residents in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, schools and other establishments by means of visits from volunteers and their registered temperament-tested pets.
Only those signed up as members can visit establishments that are registered with the charity, like RFC. No other dogs can support patients or staff and all owners undertake our application checks and training process like any other individual who volunteers at the Trust. They are bound by all Trust policies and procedures including infection control. The Trust Infection Control Policy does cover Pets as Therapy visits.
All owners have their therapy dogs on a lead at all times to ensure full control of their pet should an emergency situation arise.
Volunteers wear an identifiable volunteer uniform and also display the correct photographic ID badges as issued by the Charity and also wear Trust Volunteer ID.
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Our extraordinary volunteers enrich the experience of patients and the support they provide to NHS staff is transformational.
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The Royal Free Charity is fully committed to providing an environment in which volunteers are able to realise their full potential and contribute to the success of the charity regardless of their backgrounds or beliefs. We welcome applications from all volunteers who will be considered solely on their ability to carry out their roles.