Volunteer opportunities

As an Activity Support Volunteer, you will engage patients in a range of activity to help them improve and maintain their health and wellbeing whilst a patient in our services. After appropriate training and support from the Multi-Disciplinary Team , you would help delivery an engaging and varied programme of activities that contributes to our service users' recovery and enhances their experience.

Under the guidance of the Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Team and in partnership with clinical colleagues, the Care Dog Volunteer will provide an opportunity for patients and families to meet a registered dog and to engage in one-to-one and / or group contact in a safe environment.

Under the guidance of the Involvement, Experience and Volunteering Team and in partnership with clinical colleagues, the Care Dog Volunteer will provide an opportunity for patients and families to meet a registered dog and to engage in one-to-one and / or group contact in a safe environment. *Please note this is not a therapeutic role.

The purpose of this role is to support the Trust's provision of the meal service for inpatients, support the provision of good nutritional care at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and its protected mealtime principles. The mealtime facilitator will be supervised by the ward sister or nurse in charge and work operationally alongside either the housekeeper or other team member serving the meal on a dedicated ward. The mealtime facilitator role might be a standalone role or aspects of this description might fall within another volunteer role.

Mealtime facilitators will not be responsible for feeding patients as many have very specialist needs and requirements surrounding their food and mealtimes.

The Conversation Partner scheme is operated by the Community Speech and Language Therapy - Stroke team in Mansfield for people with acquired speech / language difficulties following a stroke. 

Each person has a different set of speech and language difficulties; these can include slurred speech, which is hard to understand, comprehension problems (so that it is hard for patients to make sense of spoken speech and / or written text) and expressive difficulties (including problems with finding words, constructing sentences, writing, and spelling).

Eating Disorders Team, AMH and CAMHS

You will provide support to the group facilitator and offer support to carers who attend the group and offer time to listen.

Individually matched to current parents / carers of clients within the ED case load, volunteers will meet with their match at least once a fortnight to offer peer support.

You will support the colleagues team to deliver training to other professionals (GP's) this may be in the form of telling your story.

The volunteer role for patient experience is to support the hospital in obtaining feedback from patients, service users and carers regarding the experience that they have as a patient, carer or family member, of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The role can be on our inpatient wards or collected using the telephone to talk to our patients and carers to collect feedback.

Volunteers are required to assist clinical and non-clinical colleagues in the collection of feedback from patients in clinical settings to ensure that the Fundamental Standards of quality and safety are being met.