Range of opportunities

Under the guidance of the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) school staff, the volunteer will provide basic and diversionary play activities for patients and their siblings in the Activity Centre - ensuring that the highest standards of play care are available for the children. 

The main purpose of this role is to provide admin support to the dieticians, dietetic assistants, and office administrator to ensure the smooth running of Dietetics. 

The volunteer will support staff in the running of the Occupational Therapy department from both an administrative and patient support perspective.

The purpose of this role is to assist the Clinical Nurse Specialist and Admissions Coordinator in the administration of their duties, providing basic administrative support and auxiliary help with rudimentary tasks during busy periods.

Under the guidance of the Ward Administrator, the support volunteer will assist in the smooth running of ward administration and reception duties. 

In this role, suited to medical students looking for hospital experience, the volunteer will be assisting people, giving information, registering patients and supporting secretaries in their administration duties. 

The purpose of this role is to provide specific one to one support for patients - cradling babies and young children, giving much needed nurture and support. 

Under the guidance and the supervision of the bereavement and mortuary staff, bereavement photography volunteers provide agreed negotiated photographs of children and young people who have passed away.

Buddy volunteers will act as 'befrienders', providing valuable social interaction for young people and children who may be feeling isolated bored and lonely on the wards.

Volunteers will help children and young people and their families to complete clinical questionnaires before each appointment and generally be sociable and helpful.

As part of the wider entertainment team, this role is to provide quality costume character entertainment for patients and families in Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). The performer must have experience or dancing or acting to be able to perform within one of our costume characters or superhero characters. The character will be accompanied by a trained chaperone whose role is to escort characters and be the liaison between participant and character.

Under the guidance of the GOSH Arts staff members and dedicated outpatient staff, the Craft Station volunteers provide a creative and interactive environment with arts and craft activities for patients and their siblings in the outpatient areas. 

To be part of the team running arts and crafts, games and story-telling.

The volunteer role for Foundation Trust recruitment will be engaged in face to face recruitment of eligible people visiting the hospital.

This new, exciting role has been created to support the Friends and Family Test - which is a Trust-wide patient experience survey.

This role includes greeting and welcoming people on arrival and directing and escorting patients, parents and visitors to wards, clinics and departments.

Qualified, experienced hairdressers required to give much needed respite and pampering for parents and sometimes for patients.

The main purpose of this role is to provide non-clinical interpreting support for services across the Trust.

Supporting the busy reception of this important department.

This role is for qualified massage therapists who will provide relaxation massage for resident parents on the wards.

This is an exciting opportunity for a volunteer to gain valuable experience in a hospital environment with a chance to work with some of our families and clinical teams across the gym and Miffy Ward.

For registered Pets As Therapy (PAT) dogs and owners, this is a wonderful service that brings in trained dogs for patients and families to interact with.

This role provides administration, reception and youth survey support to the PALS team.

This role is working directly with patients at the bedside, supporting emotionally or practically, reading, keeping company and chatting to parents and families.

This volunteer role is to support the hospital in obtaining feedback from patients and their families more frequently regarding the experience that they have while attending GOSH, using handheld electronic devices to obtain information.

The purpose of this role is to provide informal mother to mother breastfeeding support to expressing or breastfeeding women at Great Ormond Street Hospital. 

Under the guidance of the Play Specialist, the Play Support volunteer provides basic and diversionary play activities for patients and their siblings on the ward, ensuring the highest standards of play care are available for the children. 

The main responsibility of a Radio Lollipop volunteer is to provide care, comfort, play and entertainment for sick children in the hospital to consistently high standards. For more information and to contact Radio Lollipop about applying, please visit their website: radiolollipop.org

The main purpose of this role is to provide a service to ICT Security and Governance, proofreading documents as when needed, to ensure documents are understandable and in plain English. 

The purpose of this role is to provide generic, one-to-one support for patients and parents in a non-clinical but supportive manager. 

The 17th Holborn Scout and Guide Group run a range of activities in the hospital. Please visit the 17th Holborn Scout and Guide Group website for more information.

This is a support role to the volunteering team. You will help the team recruit, train, allocate and support hundreds of volunteers across the Trust.

Ward hosts welcome families to the wards and act as a front-line information source.

This role provides reception support on wards and involves assisting with admissions, paperwork and customer services.

In this role, volunteers help run the activities, arts and crafts and games day at Great Ormond Street Hospital

Youth Club volunteers will help build confidence through engaging young people in areas of interest and encouraging the development of positive skills and attitudes.