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Volunteer opportunities

We post all our volunteer vacancies on this page.

Our roles are carefully designed to meet the needs of patients, visitors, and services, offering volunteers meaningful and rewarding opportunities, engaging everyone’s unique experiences and skills, and supporting the development of new abilities.

We recruit regularly to specifically identified roles, which are open to anyone aged 18+. All opportunities are advertised on this page, and we encourage applications from communities across the city to support the diverse volunteer workforce already in place at the Trust. Each role has a carefully designed profile which explains the opportunity in more detail including any restrictions, skills required and the days/times we are looking for support.

If you feel a role is right for you, then please follow the instructions provided in the profile on how to apply.

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Volunteer Opportunities

Summary
We are currently recruiting volunteers to support our Volunteer Patient Community Role at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.

Volunteers will be involved with the teaching sessions held by the Undergraduate Medical Education Team supporting the training and education of the doctors of the future. We are looking to recruit patients to assist us by volunteering for our Volunteer Patient Community.

What is the Volunteer Patient Community?
The Volunteer Patient Community (VPC) are a group of volunteers who are involved with the teaching of Undergraduate Medical Students as they study to become the doctors of the future.

Some may involve you being asked questions about a previous healthcare experience or a medical condition that you may have, or, allowing them to examine a particular body system such as your heart or lungs.

The teaching sessions are led by a qualified clinician, and you do not need to have any prior training or experience, just willingness to listen to our students and provide feedback regarding their communication skills and bedside manner.

We recognise the importance of placing the patient at the centre of healthcare and therefore it is vital to include patients within medical education to ensure we are training well-rounded doctors of the future.

We are looking for volunteers who:

  • Are aged 18+
  • Can support sessions in the academic year September to June.
  • Can support sessions regularly, there will be a range of sessions during the week that you can schedule to support. Sessions last around 1-3 hours
  • Can attend sessions at St James’s Hospital site
  • Have a willingness and interest in supporting the training and development of our future doctors
  • You must be punctual and dependable
  • Have regular availability to support sessions for 6+months.

If you are interested in volunteering please complete our Expression of interest Form. For further information please contact: [email protected].

Would you be interested in volunteering at the new Rob Burrow Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Centre at Seacroft Hospital in Leeds.

This volunteer role will make a really difference to patients’ experience, can you help?

The volunteer Complementary Therapist will be supporting patients, families & carers by providing complementary therapy such as gentle Massage, Reiki, Mindfulness and Yoga. This will be a relaxing experience and may help reduce a patient’s stress, anxiety and improve mood. Complementary & supportive therapies will be available free of charge to patients & families/carers affected by MND.

What do we need:

· Somebody who is a qualified professional therapist.

· Minimum of Level 3 Diploma in massage therapy or

· Reiki Level 2

· In date Registration with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC)

· Willing to hold an Honorary Contract with The Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust

· At least 2 years’ experience including providing this type of treatment to clients/members of the public in a work or volunteering environment.

· You must be punctual and dependable and committed to attend regularly for at least 6 months / 75 hours of volunteering.

If you are interested in volunteering please complete our Expression of interest Form

To request the full volunteer role profile and for further information please contact

The Voluntary Services Team: [email protected]

Tel 0113 2065888

Further details

Phone number
0113 2065888
Email
[email protected]
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