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Moray Lifeline and Telecare Response Service volunteer |
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Friday, 29 January 2010 11:07 |
The British Red Cross are looking for volunteers to help with their new Moray Lifeline and Telecare Response Service.
The aim of the service is to provide vulnerable people living in their own home with the means of summoning assistance when required, by way of using technology and named contact responders.
In agreeing to act as a volunteer responder you will be named as a contact to visit a service user in the event that any of their Moray Lifeline Telecare equipment activates an alarm to summon assistance. Where a need is identified, you will be asked by the alarm monitoring centre in Aberdeen to call on the service user to see what action is required.
You will not be expected to deal with the emergency directly yourselves but you may be required to remain with the service user until for example, the emergency services arrive.
As a volunteer, you would not be expected to do anything that would put you at risk such as trying to gain access to the property in the event of a fire. In such circumstances you would only be required to provide access to a key for the fire service.
Travel expenses will be reimbursed to volunteers responding to call outs, although it is anticipated that volunteers will only be expected to cover their own locality, to ensure a quick response for the service user.
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