Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteering
- Grade
- Voluntary
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 438-PB2274
- Employer
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Orthopaedic Pre Op Department
- Town
- Chorley
- Salary
- None - Voluntary role
- Closing
- 31/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Volunteer - Orthopeadic Pre Op
Voluntary
Job overview
Are you empathetic and ❤️ love helping others? We're looking for caring volunteers to provide comfort and support to patients in our Orthopaedic Pre Op Department. 🏥 With meticulous attention to detail, you'll ensure that each patient's appointment details are in order, guaranteeing a seamless experience from start to finish. 📝 Your dedication extends beyond greetings; you'll take pride in meticulously preparing patient packs, ensuring they have all the necessary information and resources for their procedure. 📦✨
Main duties of the job
Role Requirements:
Effective communication skills 💬 will be your forte as you coordinate with clinic staff to address any transport issues, ensuring that patients arrive and depart safely and on time. 🚗⏰ Most importantly, you'll serve as a vigilant advocate for our patients, promptly escalating any concerns to the appropriate staff member and ensuring that each individual receives the support and care they deserve. 🙌 Make a difference in just a few hours a week. Apply now and help us create a comforting environment for our patients! 🌟
Working for our organisation
We have 400 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 need to know your full work history in your application to become a volunteer with the Trust. Although there are spaces to add this information, you can just add not applicable (N/A) if you would like to. This is following recent legislation changes to make the application process easier for volunteers. For further information regarding this, please click here.
Person specification
None
Essential criteria
- None
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.
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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 access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties 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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