Job summary
Employer heading
Volunteer - Discharge Lounge
Voluntary Role
Job overview
The Discharge Lounge is a crucial part of the patient journey, and creating a warm and supportive atmosphere there can make a significant difference for patients and their families.
Engaging in friendly conversations and offering reassurance can help alleviate any anxieties they may have about leaving the hospital and transitioning back to their home or another care environment.
Providing helpful information about the discharge process empowers patients with knowledge and helps them feel more in control of their situation.
And serving beverages with a smile adds a personal touch that shows patients they are valued and cared for, turning what might otherwise feel like a clinical environment into a more comforting one.
Additionally, assisting staff with errands allows them to focus on providing exceptional care to patients, ensuring that everyone receives the attention they need.
Overall, the welcoming and supportive environment created by volunteers in the Discharge Lounge can truly make a difference in the patient experience.
Main duties of the job
Here's what you'll be doing:
🌟 Engage in friendly conversations, offer reassurance, and provide helpful information about the discharge process
🌟 Serving beverages with a smile can help patients feel valued and cared for during their stay in the Discharge Lounge
🌟 Running errands for staff members can ensure that staff have the time to concentrate on giving exceptional care to the patients. Examples of this might be collecting orders from the pharmacy, fetching supplies or delivering documents.Â
Working for our organisation
We have 200 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are interested in volunteering in this role, please see Job profile.
Please note, we do not need to know your full work history in your application to become a volunteer with the Trust. Although there are spaces to add this information, you can just add not applicable (N/A) if you would like to. This is following recent legislation changes to make the application process easier for volunteers. For further information regarding this, please click here.Â
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- None
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Allen
- Job title
- Volunteer Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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