We are fortunate to have a dedicated community of more than 400 volunteers who make a huge contribution to the Trust.
The Voluntary Services team look after volunteers only. If you would like to gain work experience within the hospital, please refer to the following page: Work Experience at PHU
Why Volunteer with us?
Volunteering comes with many benefits to both you and our community. By volunteering with Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, you will be:
- making a difference
- gaining new skills and experience
- meeting new people
- giving back to others
- increasing your confidence
- enhancing your CV
- improving your own wellbeing.
The contribution our volunteers make is hugely valued. We think all of our volunteers bring a ray of sunshine to the Trust by giving back their time and energy to our staff and patients, so we have introduced a new uniform to ensure volunteers are easily identifiable to all.
Every year we hold a celebration during national Volunteers’ Week to recognise and thank our volunteers for their support. We also hold a celebration over the Christmas period and which is a great opportunity for our volunteers to get together.
Volunteers are recognised at our annual Proud to be PHU Awards, which celebrates our dedicated staff and volunteers. Alongside this, our volunteers have won awards such as ‘Volunteer of the Year’ with the NHS Parliamentary Awards and have been commended in Portsmouth Inspiring Volunteer Awards.
Our volunteers regularly go above and beyond, giving up their valuable time to provide support in a huge variety of roles across our hospital. The types of voluntary roles we have are below:
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Commitment
We welcome volunteers from the age of 16 upwards and believe that everyone has something to give. We ask all volunteers to commit to at least 3 hours a week, for a minimum of 6 months.
Due to high volumes of interest, our recruitment window for new volunteers will now open in January 2025. If you have sent in any expressions of interest after 30 September 2024, these will be rolled over into January. This may change depending on demand, so please keep checking our website for any updates.
We look forward to seeing you in 2025.
As a Trust, we place volunteers based on the needs of the hospital. If you are looking for a specific role/department that does not fit into our current vacancies, then we unfortunately may not be able to help.