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| Volunteers Week: Peter, the Porting Volunteer |
| Written by Communications Team |
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Peter Jordan has been volunteering for Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Trust (ASPH) and Weybridge Hospitals for the past 10 years after being made redundant from his factory job. He had been working for the Porters Service in ASPH for seven years, but after retiring, he found that he wanted to do something with his free time.
Said Peter Jordan: ”The best thing is the job satisfaction from assisting and dealing with people, whether it’s patients or fellow staff. I honestly feel that if I wasn’t able to converse with people, then I wouldn’t have become a porter in the first place”. Said Peter, who believes that it’s important to be active: “You need to be fit because you are walking a lot each day to various places whatever hospital you are working in”.
Said the Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals volunteer’s manager Karen Marsden: “We have more than 500 volunteers working in our hospitals, and we cannot thank them enough for all that they do. Our volunteers have a huge variety of skills and talents that are put to good use every single day of the year – and some evenings too! Some work behind the scenes in offices and others enjoy the patient contact with ward work or reception duties – the scope for them is enormous. There are very few aspects of hospital life that do not benefit from the support of a volunteer. The WRVS, the Red Cross, Hospital Radio Wey and the two Leagues of Friends at Ashford and St. Peter’s are the backbone of our volunteering service and at this special time of year we like to thank them all publicly for their unstinting support.”
To find out more about volunteering at the Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital NHS Trust readers can call Karen Marsden on either: 01784 884227 or: 01932 723239.
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 June 2009 10:21 ) |
