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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

The Ayrshire Hospice

Charity registered in Scotland SC011390

The Ayrshire Hospice provides outstanding quality care and services which helps those with any life limiting illness. Care is provided where there is no cure for the condition, but which improves the quality of each day for people who have a limited time to live.

Our charity helps adults throughout Ayrshire and Arran with life limiting illness such as cancer, neurological conditions, end stage heart failure and lung disease. We help people to live as actively as they can to the end of their lives - however long that may be, where ever that may be. The care we provide not only seeks to alleviate pain and symptoms, but also allows people to stay engaged with friends, family and their community. We not only look after people’s physical needs but also attend to their emotional, spiritual and social needs too. The patient and their family are at the centre of all the care we provide. Family members, close friends and carers are also supported both during a person’s illness and following bereavement.

We provide care in a number of places, including people’s own homes, hospitals and care homes as well as in our purpose built day care and in-patient units. Wherever suits our patients best.

Current opportunities

Volunteer minibus drivers provide transport for patients, with passenger escorts, to and from the Hospice and their home, and for day trips. Ayrshire Hospice welcomes applications from all sections...

This role is to support people living in our communities to live well with their illness. We currently do this in a variety of ways – face to face in our Hubs, online via zoom, and via activity...

Volunteer drivers provide transport for patients to and from the Hospice and their home, with occasional transport to hospital appointments or trips out with healthcare premises. The benefits you...

The Stock processing Assistants Role supports our hospice by ensuring we maximise the income across the retail chain by helping to process the stock donations we receive, to ensure maximum densities...

Working as part of our Warehouse Team you will be based in our central warehouse (at Crown St, Ayr) where you will receive, process and sort the wide range of donated goods given by the general...

The Customer Service Assistants Role supports our hospice by ensuring we maximise the income across the retail chain by offering the best service to our customers and donors. → Provide excellent...

The Warehouse Receptionist Role supports our hospice shops by helping to receive donations into our warehouse to support the onwards sale across all stores: → Accepting donations at the Reception...

An understanding of the services the hospice can offer people with a life-limiting illness. → Good interpersonal skills → Be a team player and be willing to work within guidelines provided → Be...

Driver’s Assistants support our hospice shops ensuring that they have a supply of quality items to sell. You will need to: → Be physically fit and able to lift and move large quantities of stock...

The Merchandising Assistants Role supports our hospice by ensuring we maximise the income across the retail chain by supporting the standards on the shop floor to ensure stock densities, department...