Volunteer Driver for Patient Transport – Mileage Reimbursed

The Ayrshire Community Trust limited; Glasgow, City of Edinburgh, Saltcoats; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Volunteer Transport Driver

We offer free transport to cancer patients and where possible their escort to all hospitals and clinics in Glasgow, Edinburgh and throughout Ayrshire. Patients are collected from their homes, accompanied to hospital and taken home again after treatment. This service is especially useful for patients who feel unwell, those living in rural areas, the elderly and parents taking their children for treatment. We also provide transport for the hospice and to appointments for all therapy sessions.

We can only ensure to continue the service with the support of our volunteer drivers. If you can commit to a few hours of driving and waiting for patients every week or fortnight or every month, please consider volunteering with us.

To safeguard both service users and drivers, we require all volunteers to be PVG checked and we do require volunteers to own a vehicle (MOT & insured) and have a clean valid driving licence. We will reimburse mileage expenses for volunteers.

Experience required

• Non judging and understanding towards service users

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