Volunteer Ward Helper

Specific Tasks
Under supervision and guidance from the placement supervisor(s) to perform the following tasks
- Be happy to help cut up patient’s food and support their feeding on a one to one basis.
- Helping with recreational activities of all kinds, such as crossword puzzles, games and creative work.
- Befriending patients by talking to them or reading to them, e.g. newspaper
- Accompanying a patient around for a walk or exercise
- Willing to help with any other general tasks on the ward to assist patients

Specific Tasks
Under supervision and guidance from the placement supervisor(s) to perform the following tasks
- Be happy to help cut up patient’s food and support their feeding on a one to one basis.
- Helping with recreational activities of all kinds, such as crossword puzzles, games and creative work.
- Befriending patients by talking to them or reading to them, e.g. newspaper
- Accompanying a patient around for a walk or exercise
- Willing to help with any other general tasks on the ward to assist patients

Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re
We Listen
We Care
Specific Tasks
Under supervision and guidance from the placement supervisor(s) to perform the following tasks
- Be happy to help cut up patient’s food and support their feeding on a one to one basis.
- Helping with recreational activities of all kinds, such as crossword puzzles, games and creative work.
- Befriending patients by talking to them or reading to them, e.g. newspaper
- Accompanying a patient around for a walk or exercise
- Willing to help with any other general tasks on the ward to assist patients