Volunteer Clinic Support - Ashton-Under-Lyne, United Kingdom - Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Ashton-Under-Lyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

To enhance the service and service user experience within the clinic sessions offered by our Mental Health Services.

What the role involves:

Meet and greet service users, carers and visitors.
To orientate service users, carers, visitors to appropriate parts of the clinic.
Engage and support people to complete outcome, experience and satisfaction questionnaires/surveys
To assist with organisation of the waiting area e.g. tidying reading material, replenishing leaflets, discard out of date information.
Assist in the preparation and clearance of group rooms for information/education sessions.
To support services users and carers whilst waiting for appointments.
To support staff with reception duties, photocopying, filing hospital letters and general administrative tasks.
Offer support with tasks relating to specific clinics

The knowledge, skills and attributes required for the role:

Good communication skills.
Customer Care Skills
Punctuality and reliability

What we hope you gain from the role

Our thanks and appreciation
New skills and knowledge
Satisfaction from helping others

Please note:
To meet our Trust's safeguarding obligations applicants for this volunteer role must be aged 18 or over.

We offer opportunities in other services for people aged 16 and 17, please contact the volunteer service to discuss these roles.

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services.

We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we are a great place to work.

Volunteer Recruitment

Please be aware that due to the robust process, recruitment can sometimes take a few weeks.

Throughout the process you will have informal meetings with us and the service where you will be volunteering.

In addition to this we will require you to:

Complete an identity (ID) check
Complete a Disclosure and Barring Service* (DBS) check,
Complete an Occupational health assessment
Give details for two references
Complete relevant training.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

DBS checks for volunteers are free and the level of check is dependent on the role you are undertaking.

We look forward to you joining us and making a difference.

For further details / informal visits contact:
NameAllison or KirstieAdditional contact information