Designing, making or adapting equipment to help disabled people
Designing, making or adapting equipment to help disabled people
Posted for REMAP Essex
Posted by Volunteer Essex
You will be redirected to the Volunteer Essex website to express your interest.
The volunteer will visit the home of a person with a disability, sometimes with a health worker such as an occupational therapist or physiotherapist, understand the help that is required, make sketches and measurements, take photos if necessary, and go back to the volunteer’s home to design and make or adapt the equipment required. The volunteer then goes back to the disabled person that needs help to ensure what they have made meets their need, or modify as necessary to meet what is required.
What skills do I need?
Practical skills to invent and make things, an engineering background would help but not essential. The volunteer would need to be mobile and have facilities at home to design and make things.
Location
This opportunity is available Countywide.
Details
- Accessibility
- Data Protection policy
- DBS check required
- Equal opportunities policy
- Expenses reimbursed
- Health and Safety Policy
- Ongoing support
- Suitable for under 18s
- Training provided
- Volunteer induction
- Volunteer policy
- Volunteers covered by insurance
- Written role description
When is this role available?
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This volunteer opportunity is flexible and on an occasional basis. Probably up to half a day a week between 9:00 to 17:00
You will be redirected to the Volunteer Essex website to express your interest.