We have over 365 dedicated volunteers in our team and between them they donate approximately 35,000 hours a year of their time. Their time saves the Hospice more than £350,000 every year in salary costs.
Looking to make a difference in your community? We have a variety of volunteer opportunities where you can use your skills and passion to support our cause. Whether you’re interested in hands-on tasks or providing essential support behind the scenes, there’s a place for you to get involved. Explore our current opportunities below and find the perfect fit for you!
Would you like to help out at one of our upcoming events? If you’re able to spare a couple of hours it will help us massively!
Can you help at our bag packs and bucket collections? If so, please get involved by clicking below.
We are looking for enthusiastic, friendly and committed café volunteers to help run the hospice café!
If you have ever used a hospice service, please consider joining the group that feeds back into how we run things.
If you can drive and handle a bit of heavy lifting, we need you to help with transporting donated stock!
We are looking for friendly, enthusiastic people to volunteer their time and support patients on our inpatient unit.
Can you assist with our database management, helping us keep track of vital information? Your skills would make a big difference!
Most of our volunteering roles do not require formal qualifications but you will need relevant skills or experience. Some of our volunteer roles require a driving licence and/or a DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Service). Volunteers must be at least 16 years old (dependent upon the volunteer role).
If you love to help people and have time to spare, take a look at the list of vacancies on this page and see what catches your eye, then contact our Volunteer Services Manager.
All roles require mandatory training and depending on the role, you will be asked to attend training such as manual handling or food hygiene. This will be arranged in-house and dates and times will be communicated.
Some of our volunteering roles will need a regular commitment whilst some others can be more ad-hoc depending on when you are available and what you would like to do.
Our Service User Group is a small group of people including patients, carers, friends and/or family members who come together to meet and discuss ways in which The Hospice of the Good Shepherd care is delivered and how it can be improved. Our aim is to ensure that the views and opinions of people whose lives have been affected by a life limiting condition are used for improving people’s care and for shaping future Hospice services.
Anyone who has experience of using our Hospice services as a patient, carer, friends and/or family members either currently or in the past 12 months are welcome to join.
If you’d like to find out more about joining and contributing to the Service User Group please contact our Director of Clinical Services on 01244 851091 or email info@hospicegs.com
Our fantastic new Volunteer Handbook is now available for all new and existing volunteers to refer to, throughout their volunteer journey with the Hospice of the Good Shepherd. Just click on the image to view/download a copy.
We are so happy you are here and want to be part of our volunteer team. The Handbook can be used as a guide that you can refer to throughout your volunteer journey with us. You will find information about our team and what we can do to support you.
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Hospice of the Good Shepherd,
Gordon Lane, Backford, Chester, CH2 4DG
Hospice: 01244 851091
Fundraising: 01244 851 811
Lottery: 0151 356 8899
Email: info@hospicegs.com
Charity Number: 515516 Company Number: 01843427
