Volunteer - Children’s Ward Support

at  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Join Our Team as a Children’s Ward Support Volunteer!
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and their families? Do you have a kind heart and love bringing smiles to little faces? We’re looking for enthusiastic volunteers aged 18+ to join our Children’s Ward Support Team!

As a Children’s Ward Support Volunteer, you’ll play an important role in creating a warm and positive environment for children and their families during their time on the ward. Your duties will include:
Bringing joy: Entertain children through play, arts and crafts, reading stories, or simply chatting with them.
Supporting families: Sit with the children so parents can have a well-deserved break.
Mealtime assistance: Help distribute meals and drinks and collect trays afterward.
Keeping things safe and fun: Assist with cleaning toys and maintaining a welcoming space.
Teamwork: Work alongside nurses, assisting with errands and helping improve the ward experience for everyone.
We have 300+ 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.
If you are interested in volunteering in this role, please see Job profile. Please note, we do not require for you to provide us with your previous employment history in your application form