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Volunteers are crucial to the NHS’s vision for the future of health and social care and there has never been a better time to become a volunteer in a health care setting.
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Mental Health Volunteer - Emergency Department/Wards
Contact person
Scan me or visit www.getinvolvednorfolk.org.uk/o/Norfolk--Norwich-University-Hospitals-NHS-Foundation-Trust/opportunities/Mental-Health-Volunteer---Emergency-DepartmentWards/93858 to join
Summary
A dedicated team to support our patients who are experiencing a mental health crisis at a potentially critical time in their lives.Detailed description
We have a particularly rewarding volunteering opportunity in supporting our patients who are experiencing mental health.
Tasks the volunteers undertake range from orientating patients and their families/carers around the department, identifying where the facilities are and providing therapeutic interventions such as games or offering a listening ear and someone to talk to.
This is a communication role and does not replace/cover nursing care.
We have partnered up with the Integrated care board (ICB) to offer the volunteer to career programme. The ICB team offer 1:2:1 support sessions which includes support with CV building and even the care standard certificate!
There is an application process on suitability to the role.
Shift times are 10am-1pm and 1pm-4pm - Monday to Friday. with some limited evening opportunities of 4pm-7pm.
What we will provide to volunteers
💸 Reimbursement of costs🤝 Extra supportAbout Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital has invested greatly in its volunteer programme and is able to offer a variety of rewarding and impactful volunteering opportunities which benefit the volunteers, our patients, our families, and our hospital staff.
If you would like to contribute to your local community, learn new skills, meet new friends or discover career options while contributing to a great experience of care, we have a role for you!
There is a myriad of volunteer roles at NNUH, providing stimulating, challenging, and rewarding opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. Our volunteers provide a valuable non-clinical dimension to hospital life, contributing their skills to wards, clinics, way finding, administration, telephone wellbeing, fundraising, hydration & nutrition, Dementia, Driving and Settling in at home, to name but a few.