Imperial Health Charity
As a Mealtime Volunteer, you’ll help to provide valuable support for patients by offering refreshments, supporting mealtimes, as well as providing patients with companionship, which will have a positive impact on their wellbeing and experience while in hospital receiving treatment.
Some of the main activities of the role include:
- Support the ward staff to provide meals to patients
- Take time to chat and be a companion to patients when delivering their meals
- Keep patients company while they have their meal, as appropriate
- Encourage patients to eat their meals and take a drink
- Report any issues or feedback as required to the ward staff
- Ensure patients have a clean space to eat their meal
- Make hot and cold drinks for patients to go with their meal, as required
- Provide condiments to patients on request
- Open food packaging for patients as required
- Help to cut up food items etc to make them easier to eat
- Where appropriate, carry out feedback surveys with patients
- Support other non-clinical tasks for the ward, as requested by the ward staff.
We like our volunteers to volunteer once a week to build up rapport and support our wards. The volunteer can volunteer at either lunchtime or dinnertime Monday – Sunday.
Please note this role is particularly for Hammersmith Hospital at W12 OHS.
