Voluntary Services Coordinator
Posting date: | 29 July 2025 |
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Salary: | £31,049.00 to £37,796.00 per year |
Additional salary information: | £31049.00 - £37796.00 a year |
Hours: | Full time |
Closing date: | 12 August 2025 |
Location: | Plymouth, PL6 8DH |
Company: | NHS Jobs |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | C9216-25-0978 |
Summary
1. Oversee the administration, selection, assessment, placing and reviewing of all new volunteers at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, using the Trusts recruitment and selection procedure, providing assurance to the Voluntary Services Manager. 2. Develop new systems and processes for the intensive recruitment of large numbers of volunteers in line with funding targets and the demand from high impact, high turn-over roles, e.g. winter pressure roles. 3. Day to day management, coordination and supervision of volunteers, providing effective support, learning opportunities, guidance, encouragement and monitoring their performance and effectiveness, acting upon any feedback and providing assurance to the Voluntary Services Manager. 4. Support the Voluntary Services Administrator to ensure relevant training and induction for volunteers is undertaken, recorded and kept up to date within agreed timescales. 5. Ensure volunteer role development complies with NHS England volunteering guidance for NHS providers, including safe recruitment, accessibility and inclusivity, health and safety, and risk management. Ensure new roles meet the needs of UHP staff, volunteers, and patients. 6. Develop and maintain a volunteer to career programme, ensuring the development of roles includes increasing potential employability of candidates. 7. Develop existing volunteer capacity, e.g., increase the number of volunteering hours, offer existing volunteers opportunities in new roles and regular review of existing roles to updates tasks included. 8. Work closely and collaboratively with the Voluntary Services team and wider Patient Services team. 9. Ensure effective promotion of new roles to recruit new volunteers to ensure that the capacity for volunteering support at UHP is sustainable. 10. Monitor the suitability of both established and new volunteer roles in liaison with key staff and ensure that all roles remain fit for purpose through a regular system of monitoring, evaluation and review, providing assurance to the Voluntary Services Manager. For further details please see attached JD&PS.