Lymphoedema Volunteer - role description
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12th April 2022
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Thank you to St Oswald’s Hospice for sharing this volunteer role description.
Aims:
To provide practical, personal and emotional support to Lymphoedema patients.
Main Tasks:
- Preparing and maintaining resources, equipment and clinic / treatment rooms.
- Supporting delivery of Lymphoedema treatment (including application / removal of bandages / compression garments, washing limbs and application of skin care, recording patient height, weight and limb measurements, talking to patients in clinic).
- Providing basic administrative support.
- Ensuring that infection control principles are demonstrated at all times including use of PPE.
Personal Qualities:
- Excellent interpersonal skills – sensitivity, openness, warm and friendly manner and able to develop rapport with a diverse range of patients and colleagues
- High level of communication skills
- Confident IT user
- Reliability and punctuality to ensure the smooth running of the service
- Ability to work within relevant organisational frameworks and codes of conduct (info will be provided)
- Well organised, motivated and enthusiastic
For the full document please download the attached PDF