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St Joseph's Hospice
Founded in 1905 by the Sisters of Charity, St Joseph’s Hospice is one of the oldest and largest hospices in the UK.
Description

St Joseph’s Hospice is one of the oldest and largest hospices in the UK. We provide, high quality, specialist palliative care and support to people in our local community who have a life-limiting illness.

The main purpose of this post is to support the reception team with establishing a friendly helpful and effective welcome to patients and visitors to St Joseph’s Hospice (STJH), whilst also providing a general guiding and way finding service. The role also includes with general admin tasks.

Benefits of volunteering with us:     

  • Reimbursement of travel expenses up to TFL zones 1-6     
  • Lunch allowance redeemable at the hospice after 3 hours volunteering.
  • Opportunity to get experience in a hospice setting.
  • Reference provided after six months volunteering.
Duties

Key tasks include:    

  • Welcoming all visitors to the hospice and providing direction to destination where required.
  • Answering the phone.
  • General admin duties such as sorting the post, answering emails.
  • Logging deliveries such as drink trollies and parcels and shop donations.
  • Ensuring the reception and hub area are maintained to a high standard of cleanliness and are presentable at all times.
  • Conducting routine inspections of the car park and maintaining accurate records of vehicles using the facility. At least twice a shift.

 

Training
One day core training with the Volunteers team and role specific training from the reception team.

Time commitment

• Current core hours (4pm – 9pm or 5pm – 9pm.) Monday to Friday.
Application deadline

Causes

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.