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Volunteer Development Scotland Ltd. (also known as Volunteer Scotland).
Charity registered in Scotland SC013740 and a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland, No. SC106743. Our registered Office is Jubilee House, Forthside Way, Stirling. FK8 1QZ

NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Volunteering opportunities within NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Current opportunities

If you are aged 18 or over and fit and well with no underlying health conditions, could you offer some of your spare time to help at your local hospital or community healthcare setting? Key...

Key duties: • Physiotherapy prescribed activities for identified patients • Social interaction and support through activity • Check the safety of the walking aid prior to use • Encouragement and...

Key duties: • Provide entertainment through use of games, and other activities such as arts/crafts, musical instruments • Provide patient with refreshments • Direct patient to nurse for any...

Key duties: • To make service users, visitors and the general public feel welcome by directing them to the Ward or Department required To reassure anxious users or visitors • To help answer...

ey duties: • Welcome and direct patients and their families to appropriate location for appointments • To ensure patients and their families know where facilities are located • Referring any...

Key duties: • Spending time with patients who are on their own. • Recreational, social and therapeutic activities including: games, puzzles, reading, reminiscing hobbies and musical entertainment...

Key duties: • Weeding • Maintaining flower beds • Retrieving wheelchairs from car park and returning to main entrance Personal specification: • Volunteers must be 18 or over • This is not a...

Role aim: The experiences of people using our services is vitally important to us and provides us with opportunities to learn and make improvements to our services based on our patient’s feedback...

Key duties: • To meet and greet patients in the triage area and ensure they are seated in the right waiting area • Serving refreshments and replenishing water jugs • Keeping the waiting areas...