Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteering
- Grade
- Voluntary Role
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 438-PB2751
- 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
- 02/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Volunteer - Children’s Ward Support
Voluntary Role
Job overview
Join Our Team as a Children’s Ward Support Volunteer!
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and their families? Do you have a kind heart and love bringing smiles to little faces? We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers aged 18+ to join our Children’s Ward Support Team!
Main duties of the job
What You’ll Do:
As a Children’s Ward Support Volunteer, you’ll play an important role in creating a warm and positive environment for children and their families during their time on the ward. Your duties will include:
- Bringing joy: Entertain children through play, arts and crafts, reading stories, or simply chatting with them.
- Supporting families: Sit with the children so parents can have a well-deserved break.
- Mealtime assistance: Help distribute meals and drinks and collect trays afterward.
- Keeping things safe and fun: Assist with cleaning toys and maintaining a welcoming space.
- Teamwork: Work alongside nurses, assisting with errands and helping improve the ward experience for everyone.
Working for our organisation
We have 300+ 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 does make 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 for you to provide us with your previous employment history in your application form.
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 on line, please contact the Recruitment Team.
NO UNSOLICITED ADVERTISING COMPANY APPROACHES.
For more information about the Trust visit our website www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk or follow us on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/LancsHospJobs or Twitter www.twitter.com/LancsHospJobs
For more information on our Health Academy and what training opportunities we can offer you visit http://healthacademy.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Allen
- Job title
- Volunteer Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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