Stay and Play Volunteer

Stay and Play Volunteer

The closing date is 27 February 2026

Volunteering role overview
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Stay and Play Volunteer

Based:
Stourbridge Family Hub

This is a voluntary role which is unpaid.

Volunteer with Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a rewarding way to make a real difference in your local community. Our volunteers play a vital role in supporting patients, carers, and staff across our mental health, learning disability, and community services.

Whether you have time, skills, or simply a passion for helping others, volunteering with us offers the chance to gain valuable experience, build confidence, and be part of a supportive and inclusive NHS team.

This voluntary, unpaid role supports the perinatal team in running their "Stay and Play" sessions by promoting the mental health and wellbeing of mothers during the postnatal period.

Responsibilities include helping staff set up age-appropriate activities for children from newborn to two years old, cleaning and disinfecting toys and activity areas after each session, and engaging positively with mothers and their children throughout the group.

• Applicants must be 18+,
• Live within the Black Country

The role is based in Stourbridge. Volunteers must be able to travel to the site. Travel costs will be reimbursed.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

• Adult and older adult mental health services
• Specialist learning disability services
• CAMHS

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.

We are looking for volunteers who have these qualities:

• Computer skills - competent in use of email, Microsoft Office and databases
• Organisational Skills
• Reliability:
  Commitment to a regular volunteer schedule to provide consistent support
• Awareness of mental health
• Able to follow confidentiality policy and professional boundaries for their own safety and safety of the patients.
• Live in the Black Country or Birmingham area, within a reasonable travel distance to site.
• Volunteers must be over 18

Please see attached Volunteer role for detailed description of this specific role.

Due to the nature of our work some volunteering roles may be subject to a Standard or Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, through the Disclosure and Barring Service as stipulated under part V of the Police Act 1997. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from volunteering with us; this will depend on the nature of the role and the circumstances of your offences.

• Interest in Mental Health
• Creativity to create craft activities with mom's and children
• Some awareness around weaning and healthy choices

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust