Mealtime Support Volunteers - Whitehaven
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Whitehaven, CA28 8JGView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Voluntary
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
26 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
We are looking for "Mealtime Support" Volunteers to join our team on Ward 2 at West Cumberland Hospital. We are looking for friendly and engaging peop...
What tasks can this role include?
- Assist patients with direction from staff as needed
- Help patients order meals and collect completed menus
- Offering support to serve meals, refreshments and snacks
- Ensure patients receive correct meals based on speech and language therapist/dietician recommendations e.g. modified diets and thickened drinks
- Offering support or promoting patients to eat, helping to ensure food is cut up, packets opened and easily reached
- Keep patient water jugs filled and provide tea & coffee
- Offer refreshments to relatives of patients who are receiving end of life care on the ward
- Support with light post-meal routines, such as clearing trays away and setting out toothbrushes
- Make staff aware immediately if any patient has any clinical concerns
- Tasks NOT to be undertaken
- Manual handling of patients
- Pushing patients or visitors in wheelchairs
- Personal Care
- Taking patient to the toilet
- Clinical duties
Location: Ward 3, 4 or 5 at West Cumberland Hospital
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Customer service experience
- Good communication and listening skills
- Understanding of the need for confidentiality
- Patience and understanding
- Good team working skills
Desirable: - Health and safety awareness
Skills and Attributes
Essential: - Aware of own limitations; - Flexible and adaptable
Other Requirements
Essential: - Can provide one morning or afternoon a week; - Commitment to undertake training as required
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
12 October 2026
Last checked
13 October 2026
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