Volunteer Driver (Hellingly Centre)

The Hellingly Centre is a medium secure mental health unit where we care for people aged over 18 who have become involved with the criminal justice system. We provide a medium secure service for men and a blended medium and low secure service for women.

If you enjoy driving, meeting new people and would like to help your local community we welcome you to join us as a Volunteer Driver.

Under the guidance of the team you will provide non-emergency transport for our patients wishing to get to appointments. This maybe returning to visit home, access a health appointment or to participate in a leisure activity.

As a Volunteer Driver, you will offer reassurance and engage in conversation as appropriate during the journeys.

To become a Volunteer Driver, you will need to:

• Be 21 years old +
• Have a minimum of 2 years driving experience
• Hold a valid, full clean UK driving licence
• Have fully comprehensive insurance with business use cover
• Provide evidence of an eye test within the past 2 years
• Able to use a mobile phone
• Undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check (funded by the trust)
• Complete online and in-person mandatory training

In addition, you may also be required to have a basic driving assessment from the local service.

Volunteer days are flexible and volunteering hours would be between 9am and 5pm, up to 10 hours per week.

Volunteers will drive a Trust vehicle with a Trust staff escort.