Examples 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. 

We have a range of opportunities in administration, data entry and supporting staff with office based tasks

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 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. 

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.

The work of the Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Department is multi-faceted. This work includes visiting patients and families of all faiths and philosophies; supporting staff; maintaining ritual needs and spiritual care spaces; training both externally and within the Trust

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 Play staff team 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.

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.

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

The main purpose of this role is to provide useful information about GOSH and the surrounding areas to patients and their families, by visiting the outpatient clinics and waiting areas.  Under the guidance of the Pals team the volunteer will undertake a variety of tasks including surveys and answering requests for information.

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.

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 purpose of this role is to provide generic, one-to-one support for patients and parents in a non-clinical but supportive manner on the admissions ward where patients come for day surgery. 

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.

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

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.

In this role, volunteers help run the activities, arts and crafts, games, play and entertainment in the Activity Centre and on wards