The IL Service Volunteer will enable people to live as independently as they can at home, building trusting relationships and helping them to regain their confidence and well-being.

Working closely with the IL Service Manager / Co-ordinator, volunteers can make the difference by undertaking an agreed selection of tasks including preventing admission to hospital, enabling a discharge from hospital transporting people to and from hospital and appointments, supporting people to cope in their home, helping people with mobility aids and signposting to other services in the area

You might support with various tasks including:

• Visiting the service user in hospital with a view to supporting their discharge
• Transporting the service user home from hospital
• Visiting the service user on their arrival home from hospital and settling them in
• Keeping someone company for a few hours at a time
• Helping the person to regain independence by supporting them with practical tasks such as shopping, collecting prescriptions and light meal preparation
• Sitting with the service user and relieving the relative or carer of continuous care
• Keeping paper records of contact and activities undertaken with the service user
• Referring the service user to mobility aids and to other external services as appropriate