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Please refer to the ‘Volunteer Info’ section of our website. Once your application is received, you will be guided through each of the necessary steps toward your qualification as a volunteer driver.
Remember, you can always change your mind. It is useful to know that the main facilities served are BC Cancer Surrey (SMH), BC Cancer Vancouver (VGH area) and BC Cancer Abbotsford (ARH). We have drivers positioned in several regions throughout the Lower Mainland to affect the most efficient use of our drivers. Our Dispatchers do of course appreciate flexibility from the drivers, but rest assured, we will never insist you do something you do not wish to do. You will be oriented in each of the facilities you agree to drive to.
We reimburse our drivers approximately .50 cents per kilometre and parking is complimentary through each hospital or treatment centre. Once you are a driver with the VCDS we will tell you how.
Driving during snow events is discouraged. Never compromise your or the patient’s safety for any reason. If you are driving in the snow, you must have legal winter tires with at least 3.5 mm tread depth.
On our online volunteer drivers application form you will be asked to acknowledge and agree to our “Code of Ethics and Privacy Policy” and our “Volunteer Drivers Addendum”. At the completion of your Orientation, you will physically sign a similar document and return it to the Driver Coordinator to be included in your file.
Our volunteer drivers will pick patients up Monday to Friday and for appointments as early as 8 am and late as 6pm.
The drivers are volunteers and are reimbursed by the VCDS for gas and parking is complimentary from the hospital or treatment centres. You will never be asked by the driver for money to cover these costs.
Most of the time you would have the same driver. The dispatchers may need to have a different driver take you there and pick you up based on driver availability.
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