Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteering
- Grade
- Volunteer role
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 438-PB0264-A
- Employer
- Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Preston Hospital
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £0 None Voluntary Role
- Salary period
- Session by session
- Closing
- 27/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Hospital Radio Manager
Volunteer role
Job overview
We are looking for our new Station Manager – is it you? We are so proud to be able to broadcast to our patients from our very own studio in the heart of Preston Hospital. This means we can update them on local news, play songs they like, arrange dedications from their loved ones and entertain them with the shows we plan and broadcast ourselves. We have a long history of broadcasting to patients starting way back in the early 50’s and we plan to continue doing just this.
Our studio is facilitated by a small band of dedicated volunteers. We have live broadcasts every day from the studio & also sport broadcasts from external venues, providing bedside entertainment for patients, music, news, sport and dedications. Our presenters all have their own shows offering a range of listening options for our patients.
You will lead the day-to-day management of our station, engaging with our presenters and ensuring everything runs smoothly. We want someone to help us continue to progress and modernise the station further as well as recruit more volunteers to join.
We are also keen to work more closely with Chorley Hospital Radio so you will make strong connections with the team there to ensure we have the most effective broadcasting for our patients right across both hospitals.
This is a voluntary position but for the right person it will give you chance to help evolve our radio station, learning new skills/honing existing ones along the way and helping our station continue to thrive.
Main duties of the job
We haven’t had a manager in place for some time, so we’re really looking forward to someone taking the reins. We are ultimately an NHS hospital radio station so we do operate with clear governance and accountability which has to be adhered to.
Your responsibility will be very varied but will include:
• Ensure smooth and effective running of the station – dealing with any issues as they arise
• Supporting current volunteers and engaging them in plans for the station
• Marketing and building station identity
• Scheduling of shows
• Develop more shows for diverse audiences
• Promote and develop opportunities to interact with patients/staff/visitors to obtain requests and dedications
• Understanding the data around listener numbers and working to increase them
• Regular communication and meetings with all stakeholders
• Oversee external social media and website coverage
• Keeping abreast with Hospital Radio Broadcasting and other methods to ensure we continue to modernise our station
• Ensure sound governance in place for managing the station including regular meetings, training and communication cascades with all stakeholders
• Link with the Station Manager at Chorley Hospital Radio
Ideally, we are looking for someone who can travel to our station should any technical problems arise that need to be sorted, and someone with the ability to help with those technical issues.
Working for our organisation
This is a voluntary position so therefore unpaid – however, we do cover your travel expenses, provide free parking and you will have our bright volunteers uniform.
We have 330+ volunteers right across both hospitals, who give up their time to provide support to our hospitals and the patients we look after.
This is the website for our radio station – so you can have a listen in to see what we do: https://radio-live-uk.com/preston-hospital. This is the website for our wonderful friends at Chorley Hospital Radio too: https://www.chrweb.org.uk/
If you are interested in finding out more about the role, we would love to have a chat with you. We welcome you to come in and have a look around the studio and find out more about what we do here. Email [email protected]
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Support and guide the Hospital Radio presenters
- Ensure smooth and effective running of the station
- Ensure effective scheduling of shows
- Ensure all presenters are fully trained, supported, understand the technology and also their responsibility and compliance with Ofcom guidelines
- Help with the marketing of the station within our hospitals and building the stations identity
- Lead new approaches to take the radio station forwards including the development of more shows for diverse audiences
- Lead the development and implementation of methods for patients and staff to interact with the station i.e. requests via radio liaison volunteers on the wards
- Oversee external social media to ensure in line with the Trusts values and social media policy
- Keep abreast with Hospital Radio Broadcasting Association (HBA) and other methods to ensure we continue to modernise our station
- Ensure sound governance in place for managing the station including regular meetings and communication cascades with all stakeholders
Person specification
Personal Specifications
Desirable criteria
- ✓ Must be reliable and punctual
- ✓ Be courteous and personable when dealing with the public
- ✓ Be self-directed, willing to take initiative, and detail-oriented
- ✓ Respect and maintain confidentiality of Lancashire Teaching Hospital, service users, staff and volunteers
- ✓ Sensitive and tactful nature
- ✓ Emotionally mature
- ✓ Listening skills
- ✓ Compassion
- ✓ Reliable and trustworthy
- ✓ Understanding of personal / professional boundaries
If you are successful in obtaining a position with our Trust which involves working with patients, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check. As a registered body with the DBS, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will conduct the administration of this application on your behalf. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. This check will be undertaken free of charge.
Successful applicants will be contacted by e-mail. Please ensure that email addresses are provided for your referees wherever possible
The NHS Constitution outlines what staff working in the NHS can expect from their employer and what is expected of you. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is committed to the NHS Values and Pledges as expressed in the Constitution.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals is committed to equality of opportunity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. An interview is guaranteed to any applicant with a disability who meets the essential criteria of the person specification.
If you have any difficulty applying on line, please contact the Recruitment Team.
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For more information about the Trust visit our website www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk or follow us on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/LancsHospJobs or Twitter www.twitter.com/LancsHospJobs
For more information on our Health Academy and what training opportunities we can offer you visit http://healthacademy.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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]
- Additional information
If you are interested in finding out more about the role, we would love to have a chat with you. We welcome you to come in and have a look around the studio and find out more about what we do here.
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