SayPro Volunteer Student Placement Consulting Service

Doctors of the World UK is part of the global Médecins du Monde network, which delivers over 400 projects in more than 80 countries through 3,000 volunteers.

Our vision is of a world in which vulnerable people affected by war, natural disasters, disease, hunger, poverty or exclusion get the healthcare they need.

We also provide medical care and advocacy from a drop-in clinic in east London, and we are looking to build up a small group of experienced GPs to join our pool of volunteer clinicians who staff our east London clinic.

This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience inside a humanitarian organisation making a real difference!

Caseworkers and clinic support workers are the main point of contact for service users, who call the advice line or attend the walk-in clinic or outreach services. They carry out social consultations with service users to determine their needs and to provide appropriate advice and support. Caseworkers also follow up on more in-depth and complex cases from our clinic or other outreach work. They act as an advocate and liaise with NHS service providers to link service users to the care they need.

Students sit across both these roles. Tasks may include answering calls to the advice line and supporting service users to access mainstream healthcare services, such as GP surgeries, antenatal care, mental health support and termination of pregnancies. Students will also carry out complex cases and postnatal care follow ups and collect service users’ feedback.

Please note that while the clinic and advice line are operating remotely, students will be home based. There may be the opportunity to provide face to face support should the walk-in clinic re-open in the future.

It is important to stress that these are non-clinical placements and we are unable to offer the opportunity to do any clinical work or shadow our volunteer GPs and nurses.

Commitment required: Placements are for a minimum of 25 days. Usually volunteers do five days a week spread over five consecutive weeks or 3-4 days a week spread over 2-3 months.

PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU’RE ABLE TO HONOUR THE ABOVE TIME COMMITMENT.

Please also provide a clear indication of the days you would be available each week.

Interviews: Ongoing. Placements for 2022 are being recruited on an ongoing basis so please don’t hesitate in applying now.

Due to an anticipated large volume of applications, it is with regret that we will only be contacting those shortlisted candidates. If you have not heard from us within a month of the application deadline, you should assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

Please note that we are oversubscribed with applicants, so not being selected will normally reflect our capacity rather than a candidate’s ability.