Voluntary Services Coordinator - Dartford, United Kingdom - Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Tom O´Connor

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Communicate and liaise with other Trust staff, external agencies and Community sites in placing Volunteers. Encourage and support personal development and training opportunities and Volunteers. Responsible for Volunteers that help maintain the daily service to patients, their visitors, staff and general public.

The post holder will provide supervision and direction to the volunteers Providing leadership, promoting initiative, creativity and motivation and ensuring a volunteers personal development and training needs are addressed.


Adopt safer recruitment principles and ensure robust selection processes which provide equality of opportunity and enhance quality of selection decisions.

Participate in regular supervisions with the volunteer and develop and have a development plan that includes competencies relating to the Trust strategy.


Volunteers Management:

In conjunction with KMPT managers, recruit and interview all potential volunteers: Develop and deliver appropriate Induction package for all volunteers ensuring they are continually adapted for changing responses in service requirements To assess the volunteer skills, qualifications and/or training in order to achieve effective services for the benefit of patients and staff Develop and maintain role profiles for all volunteers recruited to the trust be able to provide a report that can feed in to the annual review so that the service can provide regular feedback to services and TWPCEG Maintaining personnel records; the control, placement and movement of volunteers; the discipline or termination of volunteers when necessary; arranging training, and providing ongoing support and counsel for volunteers Provide leadership and motivation for volunteers to ensure they reach their highest potential and satisfaction Provide non-clinical support to service users pursuing voluntary work Service Improvement and Development Be part of a team to develop and maintain appropriate policies and standard operating procedures to work within the parameters of the Trust, incorporating legislation relating to volunteers and changing work practices To develop and implement monitoring and evaluation procedures to demonstrate the levels of effectiveness and impact of volunteer involvement To proactively identify developments within the Trust where services could be provided by the voluntary services.

Review existing schemes involving volunteers and implement new ones, with the assistance and agreement of related staff, for the benefit of patients To be part of a team that can analyse new developments in the NHS and Government initiatives relating to volunteering issues To liaise with our Voluntary Services Administrator throughout the volunteers recruitment process and helping them with expenses for volunteering

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