Volunteer Coordinator Companion MID
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic individual to join our dynamic team in Marie Curie in Warwickshire, as a Volunteer Coordinator for our Companion Service
Title Marie Curie Volunteer Coordinator
Salary £ 24,620.00 – £ 27,350.00 pro rata per annum
Hours/Contract: Part time 28 hours per week
Contract Type: permanent
Based: Primary location will be Warwick Hospital but with travel to Marie Curie West Midlands Hospice as and when required
Closing date: 2nd May 2023
Interview date: TBC
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Volunteer Coordinator to join our dynamic team across Warwickshire. We are looking for a motivated, experienced, and enthusiastic individual with community engagement and volunteer management skills to join us at a time of exciting development of our services in the Midlands.
As the Volunteer Coordinator you will be focusing on developing, delivering, and coordinating the Marie Curie Hospital Companions model across the South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust. The Marie Curie Companions Service provides emotional and practical support to patients and their families in the last days and hours of life during their time in hospital. The main focus of the service is to improve the end-of-life experience for patients and their loved ones.
Responsibilities will include networking and creating professional relationships with local providers to identify gaps and establish need within the Trust to effectively develop the service in line with local need. Plus, the recruitment, training, and ongoing management of volunteers to be able to effectively deliver the Companions model.
The successful candidate will work closely together with the local Marie Curie Midlands Team, including our Hospice & Nursing Service and Fundraising Teams. As well as the wider Midlands and National Marie Curie Teams to establish a service that meets the local needs that is effective, linked to, and supported by, the wider organisation.
We are looking for a highly organised individual with excellent communication skills to join our team. Strong planning and operational service delivery skills are essential with an ability to use your own initiative to make improvements to service delivery. Although not essential, experience of delivering services using volunteers, befrienders and working in partnership with external agencies is desired.
The ideal candidate will be a dynamic individual with excellent interpersonal skills with experience of utilising initiative and autonomy to establish professional relationships and support the development of new services.
The location of work will be primarily Warwick Hospital with some travel to the Marie Curie West Midlands Hospital as and when required. This role may also require some occasional work in the community in Warwickshire.
For more information or an informal chat please contact Hannah Nolan, Community Engagement and Development Manager on [email protected]
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Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
Shortlisting and Interviews will happen on a rolling basis so early application is encouraged. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.
