Employer: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Preston Hospital / Chorley and South Ribble Hospital
Town: Preston / Chorley
Salary: £0.00 None - Voluntary Role
Closing: 09/02/2025 23:59
Volunteer - Ward Support
Voluntary Role
Job Overview
Join us as a Ward Volunteer, where your empathy and kindness can truly shine. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by engaging with patients on the wards. Your mission is to provide support and comfort to those who may be feeling anxious or overwhelmed. By offering a listening ear and a comforting presence, you'll help create a more welcoming and supportive environment for all.
Main Duties of the Job
As a Ward Volunteer, you're not just fulfilling tasks; you're fostering a culture of warmth and camaraderie. Whether serving beverages or restocking shelves, you're an integral part of maintaining efficiency and organization behind the scenes. More than that, you're a vigilant guardian of patient confidentiality, ensuring trust and privacy are upheld without compromise. Your commitment to raising concerns promptly underscores the value you place on every aspect of patient care. Join us in this pivotal role where compassion merges seamlessly with purpose, making every moment count in the hospital journey.
Working for Our Organisation
We have 200 fantastic volunteers working hard to support the services that we deliver to our patients. As a Trust, we help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Volunteering with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means our volunteers are pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
If you are interested in volunteering in this role, please see Job profile. Please note, we do not require you to provide us with your previous employment history in your application form.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* None
If you are successful in obtaining a position with our Trust which involves working with patients, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check. As a registered body with the DBS, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will conduct the administration of this application on your behalf. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. This check will be undertaken free of charge.
Successful applicants will be contacted by e-mail. Please ensure that email addresses are provided for your referees wherever possible.
The NHS Constitution outlines what staff working in the NHS can expect from their employer and what is expected of you. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is committed to the NHS Values and Pledges as expressed in the Constitution.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. An interview is guaranteed to any applicant with a disability who meets the essential criteria of the person specification.
If you have any difficulty applying online, please contact the Recruitment Team.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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