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North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust Volunteer

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In-person · Warrington•FREE
Posted 2 days ago • 16 and over
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Welcome visitors, guide people to appointments, read with patients or support ward mealtimes in a non-clinical hospital volunteering role. You could also help in the Emergency Department, maintain gardens or support dementia activities and chaplaincy.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust is looking for volunteers to support patients, visitors and staff across its hospitals. Volunteers help improve the patient experience and contribute to the day-to-day running of the Trust, complementing the work of clinical and support teams.

The role is non-clinical and mostly patient-facing. Typical activities include welcoming people at reception, directing visitors to appointments, spending time reading with patients, supporting mealtimes on wards, helping in the Emergency Department, running errands for staff, and even helping maintain gardens.

There are also more specialised opportunities such as dementia activity volunteering and chaplaincy support.

Volunteers gain valuable experience in a busy healthcare environment, along with communication, interpersonal, confidence and resilience skills. The Trust asks volunteers to commit regularly, to meet its entry requirements and to take part in the application and screening process before starting.

Health, Medicine & Social Care
Duration: Minimum six months, with shifts of at least two to four hours per week.

Location

In-person · Warrington
  • People aged 16 and over can apply to become a volunteer.
  • Placements on wards are restricted to those aged 17 and over.
  • You must have the right to work in the UK.
  • You must be able to meet the role’s commitment.
  • You must have an email address.
  • Prospective volunteers will be asked to provide a professional reference, or a reference from a school, college or university teacher if at school.
  • Most roles require a DBS criminal record check.
  • You will be asked to complete a health self-declaration or assessment survey.
  • Volunteers are expected to adopt the Trust values.
Free to participate

Free to take part. Free shuttle bus between the Warrington and Halton sites and free parking for all volunteers.

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