Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteers
- Grade
- Voluntary
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 245-VOLUNTEER-02-25
- Employer
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tameside Hospital
- Town
- Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Salary
- Voluntary work
- Closing
- 31/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Volunteer at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Voluntary
Job overview
Volunteer at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care
Here at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are committed to providing volunteering opportunities for people who are passionate about giving back to their local community. As a volunteer, we require your positive energy, skills, and commitment to help us to enhance the experience for our patients, visitors, and staff.
Our Volunteers are celebrated members of the T&GICFT family. They make a unique and valuable contribution to patients, carers, relatives, visitors and staff and play a vital role in our services. Not only do our volunteers share their time and expertise to make a difference, in turn, our volunteers will have opportunities to meet new people, gain experience and learn new skills.
We are able to offer our volunteers a number of varied roles across the Trust such as supporting staff and patients in clinical and non clinical areas and also administration roles.
Please note that we are expecting a high interest in our volunteer positions, and therefore we will be reviewing applications and may close the vacancy on receipt of sufficient applications.
Main duties of the job
We have a number of roles which the volunteer team support with through out the trust, and the duties of those roles will be specific to the job being undertaken.
Key requirements
- Aged 16 years or above and able to commit to volunteering for minimum 4 hours per day for at least six months
- Reliable and punctual
- Understand the importance of confidentiality and following procedures
- Willing to undertake any necessary training
- To be confident when communicating with patients, visitors, staff and members of the general public.
- Friendly and approachable
- Patient and people focused
- Respectful
- Able to work independently and use initiative
Working for our organisation
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
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Safety
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Care
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Respect
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Communication
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Learning
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Role description and main responsibilities
Depending on which area you choose to support, the role could be varied. Examples of the types of roles we offer and responsibilities are attached.
We expect our volunteers to be presentable, smart and always wearing your volunteer uniform and ID badge. All of our volunteers must comply with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours at all times.
Our values are:
- Safety
- Respect
- Caring
- Communication
- Learning
Person specification
General
Essential criteria
- To be willing to undertake training for the role
- To show the trust values
- Willing to support the local community
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Mellor
- Job title
- Voluntary Services Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 922 5335
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