Volunteer with St Barnabas

Inpatient Unit

Based in Lincoln or Grantham, you will be providing support to the nursing and kitchen staff to help meet the needs of patients, families and carers. This is a varied role which has a direct impact on the care of our patients.

Tasks include completing nutritional diaries, maintaining fresh drinking water, serving meals and drinks, and helping to keep patients’ bed spaces, lockers and the volunteers kitchenette area clean and tidy. You will have direct interaction with patients, carers and family members, offering a listening ear during patient stays.

Due to the level of training required, a minimum of twelve months commitment to this role, with at least one shift per fortnight, is expected.

Day Therapy

We’re on the lookout for Day Therapy volunteers in Lincoln, Grantham, Gainsborough, Louth, Boston and Spalding. You will be welcoming patients and carers into Day Therapy, helping them to feel at ease and comfortable in the environment. During visits, you will offer a listening ear and signpost people to where they can access information on other hospice services.

You will help to provide refreshments and facilitate entertainment in the form of puzzles, board games, quizzes, crafts etc. Additionally, you will help to maintain a clean and tidy environment in the Day Therapy hub and the kitchenette area. If you have a creative streak, we also have some Arts & Craft volunteer roles in our Day Therapy buildings too [link to this].

We have 26 charity shops across Lincolnshire, giving plenty of opportunity to those who wish to volunteer in a retail role. Our retail volunteers provide excellent service to customers who purchase from and donate to our shops.

In this voluntary role, you will receive and process donated goods, steam and prepare clothes for sale and encourage shoppers to Gift Aid their donations. Work also includes the rotation and restocking of items for sale, as well as pricing following guidelines.

You will represent the Hospice and pass on information about the services to customers. In the role, we will teach you how to create attractive displays both in the windows and on the shop floor. We will also give you training on using the till.

As well as voluntary roles in Retail, we also have opportunities to volunteer in our Café in Spalding or in our Coffee Shop in Lincoln [link to these].

There are various ways you can get involved with the Hospice as a fundraising volunteer. You can volunteer at one of our mass participation events, including Colour Dash, Moonlight Walk and the Torchlight Procession. You will gain a broad knowledge in how to communicate and engage with our supporters, and t here will be a variety of tasks to do including selling merchandise, registering participants, marshalling the event, looking after refreshments and more [link to role].

If you’d like to help more regularly, why not become a Fundraising Ambassador? You will be the face of the Hospice in your local community, doing anything from attending cheque presentations to visiting schools and local businesses and helping raise awareness and money for the work we do across Lincolnshire [link to role].

We have a voluntary receptionist role at our Lincoln Inpatient Unit. You will be the first person that patients, visitors, staff, volunteers, family and carers meet when they enter the building.

Duties of the role include greeting people in a friendly and professional manner and help them to sign in if required. After learning the layout of the building and the location of staff, you will be able to direct people appropriately. You will receive small deliveries and take lunch orders and payments if working at the weekend. Additionally, you will help to maintain a clean and tidy environment in the reception area and public waiting areas nearby.

We are adding to our team of voluntary complementary therapists across Lincolnshire. The types of complementary therapy that we offer our patients and carers include reiki, massage, aromatherapy and reflexology.

You will be working under the direction of professional staff, assisting to provide agreed complementary therapy treatments to patients and their carer when capacity allows. As well as providing therapies, you will help to maintain a clean and tidy environment in patient areas.

Due to the level of training required, a minimum of twelve months commitment to this role, with at least one shift per fortnight, is expected.

At St Barnabas Hospice, we provide counselling and bereavement support to people across Lincolnshire. This includes patients, their families and carers, staff, volunteers and clients who have no prior connections to the Hospice.

You will provide emotional and psychological support to clients and their relatives, where there are additional or personal issues associated with life-limiting conditions or complex bereavement issues. We offer a comprehensive placement package for counsellors who are in training, as well as those who are fully qualified.

Due to the level of training required, a minimum of twelve months commitment to this role is expected. Counsellors are also asked to commit to seeing a minimum of three clients per week [link to counselling role].

As well as counselling roles, we are also recruiting for volunteers to lead our bereavement groups across Lincolnshire. Bereavement happens for a variety of reasons and having the ability to manage this within a group can be challenging but also very rewarding. It is your job to ensure that everyone in the group can share their experiences in their own way.

You will take shared responsibility in facilitating either a weekly or fortnightly bereavement support group, lasting two hours. Your role will be to provide a safe, friendly environment for group members to meet, share and support each other through the early stages of grief within the bereavement groups [link to group role].

We have beautiful Hospice gardens in Lincoln, Louth and Grantham which are maintained solely by teams of dedicated volunteers and used by patients, families, carers, staff, volunteers and visitors.

If you choose to join one of these teams, you will help to provide a relaxing and pleasant space for everyone. You may have some patient interaction – welcoming patients and carers into the gardens, helping them to feel at ease and comfortable in the environment. You will help to maintain a clean and tidy environment in the garden and use all equipment as per guidance. This role is usually seasonal from March to October, but minimal tidying and maintenance help at other times is welcome.

This role is based in our Central Warehouse in Lincoln, working alongside our Retail team. You will support the online sales of goods on different forums and related administration work. A good level of IT knowledge will benefit this role, as well as a knowledge of online sales.

As part of the role, you will research donated goods online in order to correctly identify and value items worthy of online sale. You will then create accurate and compelling listings for advertising online. Additional work includes moving and cataloguing stock, preparing items for shipping, ensuring items are protected and labelled and that parcels are posted correctly. You will also assist staff with handing over sold items to customers collecting in person whilst representing the Hospice in a friendly and professional manner.

Based at our Central Warehouse in Lincoln, this role involves processing goods donated by the public to be sent out to our charity shops.

You will help identify items of high value to ensure these are sold using the best method (i.e. online or in-store), as well as items that should be recycled. Additionally, you will sort, prepare and price items for sale in our shops. This includes clothing, bric-a-brac and collectables. You will provide great service to customers in the shop at the Central Warehouse and to those donating items. It is also your role to let donors know about Gift Aid and encourage them to use it.

If you have a specialist interest, we want to know. You can sort through books, vinyl, antiques, clocks, furniture, collectables etc., as well as general donations.