Provide Community
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Volunteer Contract Honorary Hours Volunteer
Job ref: Volunteer1
Employer: Provide CIC
Employer type: NHS Site
Provide HQ Town: Colchester
Closing: 15/09/2027 08:00
Have you got some spare time?
Do you want to make a difference for your local community?
Volunteering with Provide Community offers a rewarding opportunity to develop new skills, build confidence, and make a meaningful difference to people who need physical and emotional support. While volunteering is about giving your time to support others, it is also a chance for you to grow, learn, and connect with your local community. We offer a wide range of volunteer opportunities across both hospital and community settings. Roles include welcoming and supporting patients, families, and visitors, helping colleagues with tasks, providing refreshments as well as organising ward activities and events. We are always developing new roles, so if you feel inspired and have some unique skills and experience that you would like to put to good use, we can look to develop a role to suit.
To Become a Volunteer, You Will Need To
- Be aged 18 or over
- Be willing to complete a standard DBS check
If you feel you could contribute, or would simply like to find out more, we would love to hear from you.
For more details email provide.volunteer@nhs.net or complete the application form below.
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Has spare time to volunteer
- Lives local to volunteer position
Desirable criteria
- Previous skills, experience or knowledge of Provide or area interested in
- Previous experience or knowledge of Provide and its services e.g service user
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Further Information
How will we contact you?
All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net
If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
Checking progress on your application?
To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.
Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
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COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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