Volunteer Delivery Driver, Ppe

**Volunteer Delivery Driver, PPE & Essential Goods**
- Unpaid role; Gas Card Provided_

Founded in 1925, VHA is a not-for-profit, charitable organization made up of over 3,000 diverse professionals - nurses, personal support workers, rehab therapists, home support workers, extreme cleaners, and office support staff. Together, we provide high quality care, with great heart, to vulnerable populations in the communities we serve. This includes seniors, families, new parents, newborn babies, people with physical and mental disabilities, children with medically complex needs, and the terminally ill. We provide service 24 hours a day, seven days a week to clients in their homes, in schools, in retirement homes and other locations in the community. In every role and at every level, we lead with purpose, build bonds that matter, and we’re passionate about providing spectacular care. VHA Home HealthCare (VHA) believes that quality care begins with quality people. Our volunteers work directly with our clients and make a difference in people’s lives every day. We’re looking for volunteers who share and enhance VHA’s values

**VHA Home HealthCare **requires volunteer delivery drivers to deliver Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Personal Support Workers, Nurses or other frontline homecare staff at various locations in Toronto. Volunteers may also deliver goods to clients as needed. Volunteers can participate in one or both services in Toronto.

Volunteer Delivery Drivers pick-up PPE from VHA and deliver it to designated staff between 9:00 a.m. 4:00p.m. **Wednesday to Friday. **The locations and times of each assignment depend upon the availability of each volunteer and the established delivery schedule.

**Purpose**:This role ensures that healthcare staff receive resources that are required to support safety while providing essential healthcare services.

**Area Served
- PPE Delivery**:Throughout Toronto: Scarborough, North York, East York, York, and Toronto.

**Schedule**:Schedule to be determined and agreed by the volunteer in collaboration with the service coordinator, depending upon needed deliveries, delivery locations, schedule, & Volunteer availability. Volunteers typically make 2-3 deliveries per month.

**Age Requirement**:Must be 18 years or older

**Responsibilities**:

- Volunteer uses their own vehicle to pick up PPE from VHA Home HealthCare and deliver it to staff
- Volunteers will be provided with a destination address, contact and phone number, and will deliver PPE packages to VHA staff
- Deliveries are 'no contact' and physical distancing is required
- VHA Staff load PPE into the vehicle at pick-up
- At the PPE delivery location, a staff supervisor may collect PPE from the volunteer's car
- Alternatively, volunteers deliver PPE to a location and stay on-site to distribute it to staff, activity takes place outdoors (all weather)

**Skill Requirements / Qualifications**:

- Committed, Trustworthy, Reliable, Punctual, Friendly, Flexible, Independent, Safe Driver,
- Committed to safety, physical distancing & public health and infection prevention and control
- Valid Driving License; good driving record Proof of valid driving license and insurance

**Time Commitment**:

- 4 hours per week (more if desired) between 9am-4pm Wednesday-Friday with specific days and times to be determined with each individual volunteer
- Volunteers may take as few or as many shifts per week as preferred

**Boundaries**:

- Maintain privacy and confidentiality of all information that you may have access to through your role, including but not limited to names, locations/ addresses, and telephone numbers
- Maintain physical distancing - minimum 2 meters between self and others and adhere to all infection prevention and control requirements and all policies and procedures
- Maintain vehicle in good working order
- Maintain vehicle/driver licenses and insurance

**Benefits**:

- Opportunity to support your community in a highly impactful way
- Personal satisfaction as you provide a vital service to VHA staff
- Gas card provided
- Engagement with a professional and supportive organization

**Screening Process**
- Orientation, Application, Interview, 2 References
- Vulnerable Sector Screening
- Online and Other Training
- General Release, Agreement, Waiver
- Driver Information Form and Waiver
- Ongoing support and communication with coordinator.or supervisor

**Working Conditions**:

- Driving own car, transporting PPE / goods
- Engagement with VHA staff and clients
- Outdoors, All weather conditions

***For more information & to apply, contact**:

- Dawn Ashford, BSW, CVA Supervisor, Volunteer Services_