Volunteer Social café support

1 week ago


AshtonUnderLyne OL RW, United Kingdom NHS Full time £15,000 - £25,000 per year

Volunteers need to support our brand new social cafe in Ashton-under -Lyne

This a brand new volunteering role supporting our first ever social café within our older people's mental health services. If you are friendly, chatty and want to help please apply for this role

Whether you want to gain experience, improve your job prospects, or just want to give some of your time to help others, volunteering could be for you

What the role involves:

  • Help create a welcoming, warm and friendly social cafe
  • Support patients to engage with the cafe
  • Promote the benefits in engaging with social and therapeutic activities
  • Help to run activities within the cafe
  • Help set up and clear away the café area,
  • Help prepare and serve refreshments to patients, carers, visitors and staff
  • Encourage conversations between those attending the cafe

DBS Level for this role is : Standard

The knowledge, skills and attributes required for the role:

Friendly and approachable

Great communication skills

An empathetic and caring nature

G ood organisation skills

P unctuality and reliability

Experience/knowledge/interest in mental health.

Have an interesting hobby eg. Knitting, music, quizzing

What we hope you gain from the role

Our thanks and appreciation

New skills and knowledge

Satisfaction from helping others

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we are a great place to work.

We want our volunteers to reflect the diversity of the people we support, and we encourage and welcome applications from people across all our communities.

Volunteer Recruitment

Applying to become a volunteer may seem a little daunting for some people however, the volunteer service is here to guide and support you through the process. Please contact us on or email if you would like support to complete the online application form

Please be aware that due to the robust process, recruitment can sometimes take a few weeks.

Throughout the process you will have informal meetings with us and the service where you will be volunteering. In addition to this we will require you to:

Complete an identity (ID) check

Complete a Disclosure and Barring Service* (DBS) check,

Complete an Occupational health assessment

Give details for two references

Complete relevant training.

  • Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check

DBS checks for volunteers are free and the level of check is dependent on the role you are undertaking.

We encourage applicants to join the DBS Update Service which is also free for volunteers. You can find information on the DBS Update Service here:

Some of our roles attract a large number of applications and we may be able to offer to 1 person only. You are advised to consider applying for our vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received

We look forward to you joining us and making a difference.



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