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Volunteer Buggy Drivers
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Volunteering • Organisation role
Contact person
Gemma Mercer
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In partnership with N&N Hospitals Charity, we are implementing a volunteer driven buggy service to improve accessibility and enhance overall patient experience.
The Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) on the Norwich Research Park, operated by the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), is designed to reduce diagnostic waiting times, with capacity to accommodate up to 430 patients per day.
Our buggy service will provide safe and friendly transportation for outpatients with limited mobility, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiac issues etc. from the main Hospital site and multi storey car park to the CDC which would otherwise usually be a 10-15 minute walk.
We initially aim to provide a service between 8/8:30am and 4/4:30pm Monday to Friday and are looking to recruit a team of up to 15 volunteers (3 per day) to cover our 2 buggies over the following hours:
- 8/8:30-11/11:30
- 11/11:30-2/2:30
- 1/1:30-4/4:30
As with all of our volunteer roles, prospective drivers need to have a calm, warm, empathetic nature and good communications skills in order to provide a welcoming, courteous, supportive presence and friendly conversation during journeys.
Volunteers must also:
- Be over 25 years old.
- Have a clean driving license
- Be able to commit to regular volunteering (e.g., a minimum of one morning, mid-morning to early afternoon or afternoon per week).
- Have the ability to follow safety procedures and instructions.
- Remain calm and confident when interacting with members of the public.
- Have an awareness of the needs of patients who may have mobility or health challenges.
- Be mindful of pedestrians, vulnerable individuals, and emergency vehicle access routes.
As an NNUH Volunteer Buggy Driver, you will be provided with full training, Trust identification and high-visibility jackets for use when operating the buggy.
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About Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Volunteers are crucial to the NHS’s vision for the future of health and social care and there has never been a better time to become a volunteer in a health care setting.
The Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital has invested greatly in its volunteer programme and is able to offer a variety of rewarding and impactful volunteering opportunities which benefit the volunteers, our patients, our families, and our hospital staff.
If you would like to contribute to your local community, learn new skills, meet new friends or discover career options while contributing to a great experience of care, we have a role for you!
There is a myriad of volunteer roles at NNUH, providing stimulating, challenging, and rewarding opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. Our volunteers provide a valuable non-clinical dimension to hospital life, contributing their skills to wards, clinics, way finding, administration, telephone wellbeing, fundraising, hydration & nutrition, Dementia, Driving and Settling in at home, to name but a few.