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Volunteering at Temple Fortune Medical Group
Meet and Greet Volunteer Role Description and Person Specification Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to assist the work of staff in non-medical matters and to support patient access to the practice. To create a friendly, welcoming and helpful environment at the Health Centre. To offer directional advice and practical assistance as required by patients and visitors in collaboration with the Practice Staff.
Time Commitment:
- 1 – 3 sessions a week
- Time period 9:00am – 12:30pm (spilt shifts)
- 2 volunteers per shift Support for flu clinics
Volunteer Description
- Meet & greet patients at Temple Fortune Health Centre
- Help patients use the self-arrival screen
- Direct patients to their appropriate reception area clinical room
- Signpost rooms, toilets & specific services (eg upstairs)
- Keep an eye out for anyone who may need help
- Advise on how to use the repeat prescription service
- Promote Online Patient Access: explain how to register & how the system works
- Support access to HUB: explain how it works & where to go
- Help with completing registration forms
- Help with the management of flu clinics
- Offer assistance to patients with mobility issues
- Offer assistance to patients with young children
- Support patient access to general & voluntary sector information provided by the practice
- Assist the medical practices with specific tasks (e.g disseminating information, actively encouraging feedback)
Volunteer Specification
- Excellent reliability and time-keeping
- Ability to be polite, helpful, friendly and able to communicate clearly with people of different ages and backgrounds (Speakers of other community languages very welcome)
- Genuine desire and commitment to support practice patients and visitors -> Sufficient maturity, sensitivity and tact to deal with people in what may be a stressful environment for them
- Sufficient fitness and ability to undertake the role
- Ability, understanding and determination to work within the boundaries of the role
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently
- Ability to exercise judgement and decision making and to report incidents when necessary