Patient Experience Volunteer - Carlisle

Job overview

We are looking for new Patient Experience Volunteers to join our team in Carlisle!

Gathering patient and or carer feedback is a top priority for North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Through volunteering in this role, you will support us to find out the views and opinions of people using our services - what we are doing well and what we could do better. Assist in the completion of patient surveys using an iPad or paper survey to capture patient feedback from wards and departments across the Trust.

To be a volunteer, you need to be over 18 years of age and living within the local Cumberland area

Would you like to join our team?

This might be the role for you if:

• You have the ability to communication with all groups of people
• Friendly, caring and approachable personality
• Helpful, have patience and have an accommodating manner
• Sensitive, compassionate and tactful nature
• Able to work on own or part of a team
• Can provide one morning or afternoon per week

Main duties of the job

• Speaking to patients in the trust’s inpatient ward and outpatients areas asking if they would like to give their feedback by completing the relevant survey
• Supporting patients to complete the relevant survey.
• Collecting completed surveys from inpatients wards and outpatients areas.
• Reviewing patient information displayed on inpatient wards and outpatient areas and removing out of date information.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.

The changes mean that:

• youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
• the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.

Nacro – Tel: 0300 123 1999, or email: [email protected]

Unlock – Tel: 01634 247350, email [email protected] or complete the online form on the Unlock website

The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

A Standard DBS check will be required for this volunteering post.  The DBS check is free of charge for volunteers.