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Meet and Greet Volunteer

Barts Health NHS Trust

This is the starting point for many of our volunteers. We all know how big and disorientating hospitals can be, particularly if you are anxious about your appointment and don’t know where to go. As a Meet and Greet Volunteer with Barts Health NHS Trust, based at the Royal London Hospital, you will play an important part in ensuring that our patient's journey and experience is the best it can be by helping patients feel comfortable from the moment they step into our hospital.

Detailed Description

This is the starting point for many of our volunteers. We all know how big and disorientating hospitals can be, particularly if you are anxious about your appointment and don’t know where to go. As a Meet and Greet Volunteer with Barts Health NHS Trust, based at the Royal London Hospital, you will play an important part in ensuring that our patient's journey and experience is the best it can be by helping patients feel comfortable from the moment they step into our hospital.

Activities you will be doing

Events & Stewarding,General & Helping

What skills are required for this role

Language Skills, Customer Service

Why these skills are required

• Friendly and positive • Good confident communication skills • Ability to work in a team • Compliant with requests from staff • Able to uphold the Vision and Values of Bart’s Health Trust • Ability to actively listen • To be respectful and understanding of different patients cultures, ethnic and minority backgrounds • Empathy and compassion • Good level of spoken English

What is in it for you

• You’ll make new friends, meet and work with new people from all walks of life, learn new skills and gain new experience. • Our volunteers tell us they feel more confident and happy by giving back and helping others.

Time Commitment

Ideally, volunteers will contribute to a minimum of 4.5hrs per shift. You can pick the shifts that suit you.

E1 1FR

Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London

Closest tube: Whitechapel

10

Application Process
Support you will receive
Role Type
Suitable For
16 - 17,18 and over
We Welcome
This opportunity is open to all, although those with criminal convictions will need to be risk assessed first due to it being a clinical environment.