We are seeking a Volunteer Coordinator for the Suffolk and North East Essex area. As a confident networker and natural communicator, you will support and implement the volunteering strategy by establishing and developing volunteer relationships. You will represent the charity to external stakeholders, building relationships and reputation.
Volunteers are vital to the success of the hospice. Each month, more than 1,600 volunteers fulfil 2,100 shifts; each week they donate approximately 8,400 hours, undertaking a variety of roles across the hospice. The volunteers donate 436,800 hours collectively per year, which equates to over £6,158,800.
Volunteer roles include receptionist, administration, community roles, gardener, retail, fundraising, and assisting on IPU. We also work with corporate businesses for volunteering days and offer placements for Work Experience and Duke of Edinburgh schemes to young people.
We recommend that you apply as soon as possible as we will review applications and interview on an ongoing basis.
St Elizabeth Hospice is committed to safeguarding and protecting the adults and young people that we work with and has a zero-tolerance approach to abuse, neglect, and discrimination of any person. All posts are subject to a rigorous safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We have a range of robust safeguarding policies in place which promote safeguarding across the hospice, and staff are expected to undertake regular, mandatory safeguarding training to equip them with the knowledge and skills to identify and respond to potential risks.
St Elizabeth Hospice is an independent charity and hospice, which improves life for people in the East Suffolk, Great Yarmouth, and Waveney areas living with a progressive or life-limiting illness.
Established in 1989, the hospice has built a reputation for delivering high-level care to patients and the community it serves. Through medicine and therapy, they ease pain; give life purpose and make life liveable. Last year, the charity supported over 4,000 patients and their families.
The hospice’s work is centred on the individual’s needs, providing specialist support wherever it is needed; whether in the home, in the community, in hospital, or in the hospice itself. Support is provided to patients and their families via the Inpatient Unit, the Community Care Unit, including outpatient clinics, home visits from the community nursing, medical or therapy team, the OneCall 24/7 telephone helpline, and bereavement support.
In 2023, St Elizabeth Hospice merged with East Coast Hospice to form a collaborative approach to developing achievable and sustainable specialist palliative care services for people living in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.
Details
Closing date: Sunday 9 March 2025
Location: Ipswich
Status: Permanent
Salary: £10,516.88 per annum (WTE £23,199)
Hours: 17 hours per week Monday & Tuesday 09.00 – 16.00 and Wednesday 09.00 – 13.00
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