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Recruitment has now closed for 2019.
All volunteer roles currently available at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust are listed in the table below.
| Role | Departments | Day | Time | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play Volunteer - Wards | Medical and Surgical Wards | Various Specific | am and pm Ward 4 Monday to Friday 2.30pm – 5.30pm | Play volunteers on the wards help the play specialists to deliver activities to patients either at their bedside or in a play room. You will help create displays on the ward and help clean toys and prepare resources. You will also need to be able to chat to parents and carers. Sometimes you may not have a play specialist with you so you need to be self-motivated and able to work on your own initiative. Reliability is very important. | Apply |
| Play Volunteer - Outpatients | Outpatients Department | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri | am and pm pm am and pm pm am and pm | Working with play specialists to entertain and play with children who are waiting for their outpatient appointment. Craft activities and general play. Cleaning toys and preparing resources. Usually two volunteers per session. | Apply |
| Play Volunteer - Outpatients | Hearing Services | Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri | am or pm am or pm am or pm am or pm am or pm | Working with play specialists to entertain and play with children who are waiting for their appointment. Craft activities and general play. Cleaning toys and preparing resources. You will also tidy the waiting area and chat to parents as they are waiting. One volunteer per session. | Apply |
| Play Volunteer - Outpatients | Northern General Hospital | Mon Tue Wed Fri | 9am - 1pm and 1.30pm - 4pm 9am - 1pm and 1.30pm - 4pm 9am - 12.30pm 9.30am - 12pm and 1.30pm - 4pm | Working with play specialists to entertain and play with children who are waiting for their appointment at the Northern General Hospital in Fir Vale. Craft activities and general play. Cleaning toys and preparing resources. | Apply |
| Play Volunteer - Outpatients | Eye Clinic | Mon Thu Fri | 9am - 12.30pm and 1.15pm - 5pm 9am - 12.30pm and 1.15pm - 5pm 9am - 12.30pm | This play opportunity requires self-motivation, a mature outlook and life experience. Play plus supporting staff, taking patients to other departments including the Royal Hallamshire Hospital (just around the corner) for photographs. | Apply |
| Play Volunteer - Oncology | PACT and Westfield Health Oncology and Haematology Centre | Mon Wed Thu Fri | 1pm - 4pm 1pm - 4pm 1pm - 4pm 9.30am - 12.30pm and 1pm - 4pm | Supporting children and families in the clinic waiting area. You need to be self-motivated and confident with play and other activities. Play opportunity in the oncology clinic includes chatting to patients, parents and siblings, bravery certificates, bravery beads etc. Arts and craft activities. | Apply |
| Play Volunteer - Emergency Department | Emergency Department | Various | Most mornings, afternoons and evenings | Supporting and playing with children who are waiting to see a doctor/nurse or with their siblings to keep them entertained. Chatting to parents. General tidying up, cleaning toys, preparing resources, craft activities, charging iPads etc. | Apply |
| Theatre Admissions Unit Volunteer | Theatre Admissions Unit | Wed Thu Fri | 8am - 11am and 11am - 2pm 11am - 2pm 11am - 2pm | Supporting children and their parents/carers by chatting and playing with children as they wait to go to theatre for surgery. Also welcoming children back from theatre into the recovery area, giving snacks and drinks and preparing trolleys, changing laundry etc. This is a busy department requiring confident volunteers who can get stuck in. | Apply |
| Hospital Welcomer and Guide | Main Entrance and Outpatients Department | Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday | 1pm-4pm 1pm-4pm All day vacancies 1pm-4pm All day vacancies | One of the busiest volunteer roles. Welcoming any visitor to the hospital and getting them to where they need to be. You will need a good head for directions and be able to be on your feet for a few hours. Plenty of walking to most departments in the hospital. You will help patients complete their self-service check-in on the touch screens and will get involved in patient experience activities. Requires confidence and big smiles. At busy times you may be asked to support a different outpatient department. You will get involved in Patient Experience work – asking families for feedback and you will support nursing teams by taking blood samples from outpatients to the labs. 3 or 4 volunteers per session. | Apply |
| Speech and Language Support Volunteer | Various community venues including Ryegate Children's Centre | Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and term time only | Afternoon Morning Morning Afternoon | Welcoming children and their families as they come to see the speech therapists. Making refreshments, playing games with the children, setting up and clearing away, preparing resources. | Apply |
| Woodworking Volunteer | Ryegate Children's Centre | Mon Tue OR Wed | To be arranged with right candidate | Helping to finish off bespoke children’s furniture, sanding and painting. | Apply |
| Sewing / Embroidery Volunteer | Ryegate Children's Centre | To be arranged | Using an emroidery machine to stitch cartoon characters, football logos etc onto pressure garments used for our burns patients. | Apply | |
| Therapeutic Massage Volunteer | Throughout the hospital | Mon Fri | am or pm | You will need experience of neck and shoulder and hand massage. Over the clothes neck and shoulder massage and hand massages given to parents and carers on various wards across the hospital. All resources supplied. Aimed at easing stress and calming anxious parents. Some experience of massage required. | Apply |
| League of Friends | Shop work and committee members | Any days/times | am and pm | The League of Friends are a charitable group who make and sell items within the hospital to raise funds for equipment and other things which benefit our patients. The shop is open every weekday and the committee meets monthly. | Apply |
| Friends and Family Test Volunteer | Throughout the hospital | Any weekday | Various times | The Family and Friends test is a three-question survey which we use to improve our services. Volunteers need the confidence to approach families in outpatient departments to ask them to complete the survey on iPads. This is suitable for people who need flexibility with their times. | Apply |
| PALS Support | Outpatients Department | Thu | 10am-2pm | Giving families information and supporting the PALS team with events, surveys etc. | Apply |
| Support Volunteer | Medical Daycare | Mon Wed Fri | 9am-1pm | Various duties, creating/handing out bravery certificates | Apply |
| School Support Volunteer | Becton Centre, near Crystal Peaks | Days to be agreed with right candidate | Times to be agreed with right candidate | Working alongside the schools service supporting our young adults and children in our Mental Health Service. Delivering non-curricula activities and support. Life experience and mature outlook required. | Apply |
| Read for Good Book Trolley | Main hospital site – all wards | Tuesday Thursday Friday | Times to be agreed with right candidate | Taking the book trolley to the wards for children to borrow books like a mobile library service, reading to children, storytelling. Requires you to be able to push a small wooden trolley around the hospital | Apply |
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