Volunteer Information

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

 Volunteers are key to the Free Clinic's success in meeting its mission.  Volunteer opportunities are available during business hours as well as on Clinic evenings and for special events.  New volunteers are always welcome and receive an individual orientation and on-the-job training. For more information or an application call 540-862-6674 or 1-800-370-2407.

Administrative Volunteer  Positions   

Project Person
Responsibilities: Assist staff with a variety of projects ranging from one-time to
long-term projects.
Time:  Variable, flexible.
Qualifications:  Some projects require ability to talk on the phone to volunteers or patients, willingness to learn new computer software, or willingness to assist with and attend special events.

Phone Person
Responsibilities:  Answer patient questions, refer patients to outside resources/agencies, answer some volunteer questions, schedule patient appointments.
Time:  Variable, flexible.
Qualifications:  Excellent communication skills, willingness to treat our patients with kindness, must be willing to learn about clinic procedures and protocol, must commit to an extended period of time.

Screener
Responsibilities:  Accurately fill out the screening forms for new patients, qualify  patients for services, re-screen current patients, assist the receptionist between screening sessions.
Time:  Variable
Qualifications:  Ability to ask patients confidential demographic and qualifying information, willingness to assist the receptionist when necessary,  willingness to learn about other community resources available to patients, willingness to interact with our patients in a kind manner.

Staff Stuffer
Responsibilities:  Prepare and deliver a  meal, including beverages and dessert for the volunteers.
Time:  4:30pm
Qualifications:  Ability to prepare delicious and nutritious food!

Evening
Receptionist
Responsibilities:  Check patients into the clinic, get medical charts ready, schedule patients for follow-up appointments, read doctor and nurse notations, initiate referrals and lab and x-ray procedures when necessary.
Time: 4:30 - 9:00pm 
Qualifications:  Excellent communication skills, willingness to greet our patients with kindness,  ability to arrive at 4:30, ability to work one on one with each patient and put proper closure to each patient's visit.

Medication Logger                   Responsibilities:  Record information for all sample medications dispensed and copy prescriptions.
Time: 5:30 - 9:00pm 
Qualifications:  Must be neat and accurate.

CLINICAL VOLUNTEER POSITIONS    

Provider                                   Responsibilities:  Treat patients by appointment.
Time: 5:30 - 9:00pm 
Qualifications: Must be licensed to practice medicine in Virginia.  May be a physician, nurse practitioner or physician assistant.

Nurse                                         Responsibilities:  Take vital signs of each patient, record chief complaint and brief patient history, assign patients to exam rooms, prepare rooms between patients, assist providers as needed, work as a team with other nurses to ensure proper patient flow and that protocol if followed.
Time: 5:00 - 9:00pm 
Qualifications: Must be licensed to practice in Virginia.  May be am RN, CNA, LPN or Medical Assistant.

WHAT ONE PHYSICIAN HAS TO SAY ABOUT VOLUNTEERING......

“ I have always enjoyed the time  I spend working in the Free Clinic… there is time to sit and talk with patients at length without interruptions… and physicians are assisted by well qualified nurses…”

Charles Ballou III, MD