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Volunteers are crucial to the NHS’s vision for the future of health and social care and there has never been a better time to become a volunteer in a health care setting.
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Emergency Department Volunteer
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Summary
Volunteers are based in Telephone, Children’s ED, TrolleyBay, Older Person’s ED, Minor Injur, Rapid Assessment, Ambulatory, Streaming, Mental Health &HomelessDetailed description
Tasks include handling telephone enquiries, taking belongings and messages from relatives to patients, way finding for those coming into ED for appointments, car parking validation, transferring and escorting around ED and x-ray, updating the wait time boards, supporting the queue to book in, calling patients through from the waiting areas, finding wheelchairs, topping up stock, offering refreshments, cleaning equipment, taking those that are discharged back round to the main ED department, finding and cleaning of beds, providing companionship, completing patient belonging forms, labelling property, supporting at meal times, handing out leaflets, gathering feedback from patients about their experience with us and keeping them well informed.
This is a fun and rewarding opportunity with no two days ever the same!
What we will provide to volunteers
💸 Reimbursement of costs🤝 Extra supportAbout Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital has invested greatly in its volunteer programme and is able to offer a variety of rewarding and impactful volunteering opportunities which benefit the volunteers, our patients, our families, and our hospital staff.
If you would like to contribute to your local community, learn new skills, meet new friends or discover career options while contributing to a great experience of care, we have a role for you!
There is a myriad of volunteer roles at NNUH, providing stimulating, challenging, and rewarding opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. Our volunteers provide a valuable non-clinical dimension to hospital life, contributing their skills to wards, clinics, way finding, administration, telephone wellbeing, fundraising, hydration & nutrition, Dementia, Driving and Settling in at home, to name but a few.