Administration helper / medical records assistant
Administering eye drops to post operative cataract patients in the community |
| Advocacy |
| Ambulance first responder |
| Anti-coagulant assistant |
| Artist |
| Arts & crafts (knitters, blanket maker, art therapist)Audiology Visitor (helping people use their hearing aids) |
| Befriending / buddying (in-patients and community) |
| Benefit advice |
| Birds of prey (volunteers bringing birds to children's units) |
| Carer support |
| Chapel organist |
| Chapel service helpers |
| Chapel service singers |
| Chapel services names collector |
Chaplaincy (pianist, lay preacher)
Chaplaincy Visitor |
| City guides (guides who conduct hospital tours) |
| Clerical helper |
| Clinic assistant (baby/well-being etc) |
| Counsellor |
| Curtain matcher (collecting odd curtains in hospital and putting them in pairs for re-hanging)
Dental Complaints Service volunteer panel member |
| Dining Companion
Discharge lounge assistant |
| Drama assistant |
| Entertainment |
| Events helpers |
| Exercise to music |
| Expert patient |
| Feeders (for patients) |
| Fish tank maintenance |
| Focus groups for research |
| Flower arrangers / flower care on wards |
| Fundraising |
| Games players (e.g chess player companion) |
Garden (including pond maintenance)
GP patient participation group member |
Governance & Trustees
Hairdresser for In-patient & Day Care units |
| Hand holders (for surgery etc.) |
| Home care |
| Home escorts for vulnerable patients |
| Hospital radio presenter |
| Hospital radio request collector |
Information/leaflet checkers
Information provider (e.g. in epilepsy clinic) |
| Interpreter |
| Interviewer |
| IT volunteers (database work) |
Knitters for premature babies
Lay assessor (for the Quality & Outcome Framework) |
| Letter writer |
| Librarian |
| Magazine delivery |
| Massage and aromatherapy massage |
| Medicinema |
Meet and greet / welcomer
Menus - help patients choose their meals |
| Musicians |
| Occupational therapy activities assistant |
| Packs (making up maternity packs, patient emergency toilet kits) |
PALS officer
Palliative care |
PAT dogs/ animal visits
Patients council representative |
| Pastoral |
| Peer educators (various projects) |
| Pharmacy |
| Physiotherapist assistant |
Plain language volunteers (to de-jargon written materials)
Playing board games |
| Playroom helpers |
| Post room assistant |
| PPI forum member |
Print room
Reading newspapers to people with poor sight |
| Reception/Information/Enquiry desk/Welcome desk |
| Recruitment & selection of staff |
| Recycling assistants |
Reflexologist
Run current affairs discussion groups
Run singing groups |
Runner (of errands in and out of hospital)
Running a book group
Running music appreciation sessions
Running poetry sessions |
| Security |
| Shop helper (food, clothing etc) |
| Shoppers (for patients) |
| Skin camouflage |
| Social events organisers /helpers |
| Speech and language volunteers |
| Sport companions for mental health service users (e.g golf buddy) |
| Sport organisers for mental health service users (e.g angling groups) |
Support groups for specific health conditions
Taxi escorts |
| Tea bar / café / bar
Teacher helping with schoolwork on children's ward |
| Theatre |
| Trainers (e.g. life saving technique) |
| Therapeutic hand care |
| Transport (drivers) |
| Trolley service (meals, drinks, toiletries, newspapers etc) |
| Visitor screening helpers
Walking companions for people recovering from knee and hip operations |
| Ward and Department volunteers (various, including A & E, Outpatients, Occupational Health, X-Ray etc) |
Wheelchair pushers
Yoga teacher |
| Youth group helpers |
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