Bank Driver

**About The Role**: Looking for a responsible and rewarding driving job that gives a flexible choice of hours during overnights, evenings and weekends? Join the team supporting our Out of Hours service in Surrey and play your part in ensuring better healthcare for your local area.

As the largest independent provider of NHS services, Practice Plus Group is delivering a new model of Integrated Urgent Care that reduces pressures on services and staff. By bringing together NHS 111 call centres, clinical assessment and other urgent care services, we enable patients to access the right care, when they need it. It’s better for everyone.

As a Bank Driver, you’ll chauffeur GPs and nurses to and from patients’ homes - typically when they’re unable to see their usual clinician. This is not an emergency service and you will need to follow all the normal rules of the road. It will be part of your role to ensure the safety of our clinicians and medical equipment, so you may be asked to escort them to the patient’s front door.

This role will be based from either:
Woking Area Base - Woking Hospital, Heathside Road, Woking, Surrey GU22 7HS - Weekend evening shifts
Guildford Area Base - Royal Surrey County Hospital, Egerton Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XX - Weekend afternoon & evening shifts
Epsom Area Base - Epsom General Hospital, Dorking Road, Epsom, Surrey KT18 7EG - Weekend morning & afternoon shifts

**What you'll be doing**: 1. To arrive in time to ensure that the allocated shift car is checked, prepared and serviceable, no later than the start of the shift time.

2. To ensure that any pre-shift car inspections, both external and internal, are carried out to check for any damage and lack of cleanliness. If anything is observed, then observations to be recorded on the car log sheet. Ensuring adequate fuel for the shift using designated petrol station.

3. Changing flat/damaged tyre and essential car bulbs when necessary. These actions should always be logged in the relevant log books.

4. To ensure that all necessary medical equipment and supplies are checked at the beginning of each shift. This includes checking the volume of prescriptions, doctor equipment, paperwork and envelopes for the relevant doctor’s/nurse’s bag. Also allocating an unused drug cassette and recording the drug cassette number in the correct log.

5. To ensure that personal shift times are correctly entered upon the personal time sheet and car log sheet (including breaks). When completing the other logbooks/checklists to ensure that all-relevant columns are correctly completed.

6. To ensure that all relevant existing guidelines and any subsequent verbal or written memoranda are adhered to.

8. To ensure demonstration of good communications skills as each driver needs to liaise with doctors, drivers, co-ordinators, patients and management team.

9. To perform courtesy calls to patients to confirm arrival and patient data.

10. To enter information onto the car computer, at the visiting doctor’s request. If the computer system fails and the car needs to take details over the mobile telephone, the driver must take notes in a legible script.

11. To ensure that security is at the forefront of each shift. The drivers are responsible for the safety of the doctors whilst in the cars and if a doctor needs an escort to the front door of an address, drivers are required to provide this service. The car and its security are paramount and common sense must prevail.

12. To be pro-active where possible in identifying any potential dangers/problems when doctors are visiting in patients’ house, and to report these back to base.

13. Deliveries made upon request from Manager/Supervisor.

14. To liaise with the Practice Plus Group Co-ordinator and keep him/her informed at all times of any problems that arise while on shift and to communicate hourly.

**What we’ll look for in you**: What you will need:

- Driving experience, with a full driving licence, good map reading skills and knowledge of the local area.
- Good communication skills, both in person and by telephone.
- Basic IT skills for noting information such as itinerary checklists and time logs accurately.

What you will get:

- Pay: £13.06 per hour
- Opportunities for ongoing training and career progression into other operational roles within our services.
- Practice Plus Group benefits