Volunteering
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General Information
The minimum age for volunteering in our clinical areas is 16, however we do not place under 18s within our children's or maternity wards. Travel expenses may be claimed within a maximum 20-mile radius of NUH for car users or for public transport when using the appropriate bus fare. Volunteers are encouraged to use public transport/park & ride.
Meal vouchers can be claimed in certain circumstances. All candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced disclosure check through the Criminal Records Bureau appropriate to their role and in line with current government legislation. All DBS checks are free for volunteers. A uniform and training is provided.
We have various placements available, highlighted below are some of the opportunities currently on offer:
Volunteer Maternity Ward Assistant
Assisting with complementary support on both our QMC and City Hospital sites.
Duties include:
- Meet and Greet Service for patients and visitors at ward entrance
- Answering telephone and taking messages
- Filing in notes as required by staff
- Photocopying as required
- Stocking up on stationery
- Tidying storage areas
- Liaising with other departments e.g. taking request cards
- Assisting in keeping records up to date e.g. admissions books.
- Collecting sterile equipment from sterile product department as required
- Taking faulty equipment to MSU and collecting.
- Running errands for reception/nursing staff as required.
- Talking through the menu and supporting patients with appropriate choices of meal
- Ensuring that patients have the correct meal, in line with dietary or cultural needs or ethical preferences
- Giving feedback to the ward team
- Be flexible within their approach to duties and requests
Meet and greet
Greeting Patients, Visitors and staff with a professional front of house image offering a welcoming, helpful, friendly, and courteous approach. 
Duties include:
- Act as a contact point welcoming individual’s into the hospital
- Provide clear and accurate directions/wayfinding
- To escort individual’s either on foot or via wheelchair to their destination as appropriate
- Be flexible within their approach to duties and requests
We offer Meet and Greet placements on all our hospital campuses.
Volunteer Mealtime Assistant
Assisting in the preparation of the ward and patients before meal times, delivering meals to the bedside, acting as a meal time companion. 
Duties include:
- Talking through the menu and supporting patients with appropriate choices of meal
- Positioning the food on the plate in a way that helps the patient / turning the plate round during the mealtime
- Ensuring that patients have the correct meal, in line with dietary or cultural needs or ethical preferences
- Giving feedback to the ward team, providing information about how much patients’ have had to eat / drink.
- Be flexible within their approach to duties and requests
We offer Volunteer Mealtime Assistant placements on both our QMC and City hospital campuses.
Nottingham Hospitals Charity
There are a variety of volunteering opportunities to support our fundraising efforts in aid of Nottingham’s NHS hospitals. Roles include stewards for fundraising events, volunteers to help run our Charity Hub shop at QMC, supporters to attend public events to promote the charity on our behalf, and ambassadors who can represent us at cheque presentations.
Please contact us to find out what volunteering roles are currently available.
0115 962 7905
Play volunteer
Volunteers must be 18 years and above
This play volunteer role consists of coming into the children’s hospital at the QMC and attending the following wards, D33, D34, D35, E17, E40, E37/CAU, to help the play specialists with general play duties for children.
Volunteer hours required 10 am – 3pm MONDAY TO FRIDAY ONLY
1. To sit and play with the children participating in arts and craft activities and playing games.
2. To engage and support children when they do not have visitors.
3. To clean the toys after use and put them away.
4. To help create packs for the children and young people, distributing packs when play specialists are not available.
Some of the volunteer tasks may be unsupervised, but volunteers will get a daily update of which children to see and what activities to undertake with them.