Volunteering
We welcome volunteers to St George鈥檚 University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a way of involving local people in the day-to-day running of our services and offering them the opportunity to contribute to patient care in ways which may not be available through the conventional NHS.
If you would like to volunteer your time and skills, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Below are just a few examples of services with which volunteers can become involved:
Trust Volunteer Roles
- Hospital Guides – directing and escorting patients and their visitors around the site
- Assisting at Mealtimes – Helping patients eat who can feed themselves
- Basic administration tasks
- Emergency Department
- Spiritual Care – To work in partnership with the Chaplains to provide high quality spiritual, pastoral and faith-based care to patients, relatives and staff members
However, volunteers are not here to replace salaried staff 鈥� volunteers complement and supplement our services, they do not supplant them.
A full list of available roles can be found on the current vacancies page.
Patient Partners
As well as recruiting volunteers who assist in the delivery of services, we are also looking for patient partners, these are also volunteers but the time they contribute to the Trust is used to develop and transform services.
Patient Partners get involved and in specific projects to improve services using their skills and experience as patients and work in partnership with staff.
Patient Assessors
We also recruit volunteers who carry out inspections across the Trust, there are weekly departmental inspections and much larger annual inspections involving multiple areas and the hospital environment.
How can I find out more?
Visit the听How to Apply page to access an application form.
To be a volunteer, you need to be over 18 years of age, living within the local area and be available for a minimum of three hours a week, for at least six months 鈥� mainly office hours, Monday 鈥� Friday.
We do provide assistance with local travel expenses and meal vouchers are supplied within certain criteria for our volunteers.
Why volunteer?
- You will meet other interesting people of all ages and backgrounds and make new friends
- You will be part of a team and learn new skills
- It can help improve your job-seeking opportunities, while you do something worthwhile and useful
- It can contribute to your personal development
- And you will also know that you are making an important contribution to your local community
There is often some confusion between work experience and volunteering. Volunteering is giving something back to the local community and involves a regular commitment of time. It is not a structured learning programme and you will not be shadowing and will not be rotating regularly between departments. For work experience please follow this link – work experience
All Volunteer roles are non clinical and new roles are being developed all the time so keep checking our Current Vacancies page for new roles that might be of interest to you.
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