Creating Volunteer Opportunities
Once you have met the volunteer team and considered how you would best like to utilize volunteers for your service, we ask that you fill out a Volunteer Role Description form. This form will detail the role the Volunteer will eventually take on and what the role may entail. You can download the form and send it back to us for approval.
When crafting volunteer opportunities, it's crucial to ensure that they are designed to benefit all parties involved. This means that when you take on a volunteer it is done to help support your service, your patients, and in turn the volunteers.
We can create more meaningful and impacting volunteer experiences for everyone involved when all parties benefit.
The Purpose of a Volunteer
Volunteers add value to the Trust. In trying times, the volunteer is there to support the staff and patients who are faced with immense pressures. This includes staff shortages, financial issues, patient care backlog, that has leads to decreased satisfaction of patients.
The Trust's vision is to make a positive difference in people's lives. We will do this by providing the highest quality mental health and community care to our local communities. We as the Volunteer Service Team abide by this principal.
Our main priorities in delivering our vision are:
- Enhancing service user satisfaction
- Boosting staff satisfaction
- Maintaining financial viability
- Ensuring Volunteers have access to quality and ethical volunteering opportunities.
The main purpose of volunteers is to support in service user satisfaction. Volunteers interact with service users in various different roles, offering kindness, company and respect.
Volunteers are also there to provide assistance to staff to carry out non-clinical duties. Volunteers are never there to replace responsibilities that are usually carried out by staff.
Volunteer assistance throughout the trust can Improve quality without placing further restraint on the budget.
All of our volunteering programs are equitable, with good practice and good intention embedded into the creation of a role.
To learn more please visit our Trust's strategies, visions, and value page.