Volunteer Driver

St Columba's Hospice Care
VO97375

Using your own vehicle to transport clients from their home to the Hospice to enable them to attend a wellbeing session or outpatient appointments and then transporting clients back to their home afterwards. This is a lovely role focussed on enabling our clients to attend our Wellbeing, Community Services, Complementary Therapy and Counselling services. Without our drivers, many of our clients would be unable to access these services.

Experience required

Enjoy driving with a clean driving licence.
Friendly, warm personality.
Excellent communication skills.
Calm and unflappable.
An understanding of mobility issues.
An understanding of boundaries and confidentiality.
Fit and able to move/ lift/ store a wheelchair, for example.

Travel details

St Columba's Hospice is located at 15 Boswall Road Edinburgh, EH5 3RW. However, clients are picked up from various Edinburgh postcodes.

Travel expenses

Volunteers are able to claim mileage. There is an expense form to fill out and expenses are paid monthly via BACS.

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Training details

Hospice Volunteer Induction Programme
Hospice Orientation
Team / role induction and training
Team meetings (if/as necessary)

Restrictions

Minimum age: 18

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