Volunteering Opportunities
NHS Golden Jubilee has a wide range of Volunteering opportunities in both advisory and patient/family support roles. These roles are continually reviewed and new roles may be developed.
Patient and Family Support Roles
- Care Experience Volunteer: To capture direct patient and frontline staff experience through questionnaires or audits to compliment boards’ initiatives to continually improve the hospital’s quality of service.
- Healthcare Acquired Infection Core Leaflets: Volunteers assist clinical areas with displaying Health Care Information (HAI) Core Leaflets.
- Meal Time Monitoring Volunteer: To observe the process of protected meal times (lunch and dinner) to ensure meal times are protected.
- Meaningful Activities Group Volunteer: To support the work of the Occupational Therapist facilitating the Activities Group with long stay patients in the Orthopaedic Wards.
- Meet and Greet Volunteer: To welcome people to the hospital and help direct them to the appropriate Departments/persons within the hospital.
- Outpatient Support Volunteer: To support the work of the Orthopaedic Outpatients Department by escorting patients to other departments within the hospital.
- Pastoral Care Volunteer/Patient Visitor: To support the work of the Spiritual and Pastoral Care Department by visiting patients.
- Patient Peer Support Volunteer: To offer patient Peer Support to patients before and/or after surgery.
- Sensory Care Volunteer: To provide support to patients with hearing loss and give advice to support patients with other sensory impairments.
- Welcome Guide Volunteer: To support the work of The Eye Centre for Ophthalmology Patients by providing a friendly welcome and providing reassurance and direction.
Advisory Roles
- Lay Membership for Forums: Support, influence and shape board policies and practices to ensure consistent development and delivery of effective, efficient and high quality health care services.
- Research Working Group: To enable lay involvement in research. Members of the group will: develop an understanding of research in an NHS environment through regular discussion of a research topic; help GJF researchers develop research projects; sit on other groups relating to research, including the GJF Research and Development Steering Group and any related short life working groups.
- Patient Forums: Regularly contribute towards the review of GJF policies, strategies and procedures from a patient and public perspective.
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Contact us now for further information, to book your space at one of our Volunteer Information Sessions, or to request a Volunteer Application Pack:
Maureen Franks
Volunteer Manager
Telephone 0141 951 5423
Email: Maureen.Franks@gjnh.scot.nhs.uk or involvingpeople@gjnh.scot.nhs.uk
