Students Union, Gloucester
Gratuit
As a Library Volunteer at Lynfield Mount Hospital, you will support the Library Service to champion reading; raising awareness of its benefits and encouraging service users to access BDCFT's library resources.
This role is based at Lynfield Mount Hospital and you will come into regular contact with service users in hospital. We are looking for someone who can give a minimum of one morning or afternoon per week.
As well as the completion of the online mandatory BDCFT Volunteer Induction, you are required to attend: • Volunteer Welcome Workshop 1.00 pm – 3.30 pm on Monday 25th March or 10.00 am-12.30pm on Friday 5th April in Saltaire • Infection Prevention training 14th March, online. • Breakaway training, which will be held from 1.00 -4.00 pm on Friday 5th April in Saltaire.
These training sessions must be completed for you to be able to progress into your volunteering role, so please make every effort to attend. If you have any problems, please speak with your Volunteer Coordinator.
Minimum age 18
Mandatory Skills
Communication, Initiative, Interpersonal, Listening, Non-discriminatory, Non-judgemental, Team Work, Time Management
Finding out about service users’ reading preferences and interests Encouraging people to read and helping them to choose new books and magazines Collecting books from Lynfield Mount Hospital library and taking them onto wards for service users Signposting service users to relevant organisations, especially Bradford Libraries, so that service users can have continued access to reading after discharge Talking to people about what they've been reading With the Library team, develop ideas for this role and activities to enable engagement Raise awareness of relevant health promotion messages and how reading can benefit health and wellbeing