Volunteers make a real difference to the experience of our patients and visitors by helping in some of the following ways:

Supporting patients with practical tasks, such as making mealtimes more sociable, helping patients to keep moving, listening to experiences, helping people to speak up or by providing social interaction.

Helping visitors by providing a warm welcome, giving directions and assistance with finding their way around the hospital and by providing or signposting to further information.

Supporting our staff by helping with occasional administrative tasks or making sure information for patients is readily available.

Contact us

Tel: 01793 605247
Email: gwh.voluntary.services@nhs.net

Become a volunteer

You can keep up to date with our news and any new vacancies by following us on Facebook.

Email gwh.voluntary.services@nhs.net to be sent the link to our current vacancies.

Once you have applied to become a volunteer, you will be invited to a selection evening. We will conduct the relelvant checks for your service and you will then be invited to an induction and training at the Trust.

Hospital Radio volunteers provide a professional radio service to patients.

Duties include visiting wards for requests, and assisting programme presenters.

The national charity, Pets as Therapy, strives to ensure that everyone, no matter their circumstances, has access to the companionship of an animal.

Brighter Futures is the Trust's charity, which you can support us at events held throughout the year.

We welcome applications from local college and school students, and offer an opportunity that paves the way to allow young people to volunteer within their local hospital, and provide a platform for up and coming medical students and others interested in a career in the NHS, exposure into the life of a hospital, and the vast range of jobs available in the NHS. 

Whilst we are one of very few hospitals who accept volunteers from the age of 16, we also have a more standardised approach for students who cannot get work experience, for which volunteering is a great avenue, especially when applying to UCAS.

We ask for a six-month commitment but we also have ad-hoc initiatives, such as audits or small projects that may suit some schools and colleges.

We are very keen to work with not only health and social care students, but a range of students on varying courses that will benefit our patients, such as business or administration and creative art students.