About The Role Looking for a responsible and rewarding driving job that gives a flexible choice of hours over evenings and weekends? Join the team supporting our Out Of Hours services in Woking 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. You’ll also be expected to keep vehicles appropriately maintained, and at times you’ll need to communicate with the public, as well as the team back at base. 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. This will include replacing ribbons and paper rolls used by the in car printer. 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 in the car log book. 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. 7. To ensure that all home visits, subject to the visiting doctors’ priority of calls are carried out immediately and efficiently using the quickest and safest routes available, whilst adhering to all speed limits and other restrictions. It is essential that good map reading skills be maintained. 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.