Volunteer Coordinator

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The closing date is 18 January 2026

Join our Volunteer & Community Wellbeing Services team and help make a real difference. As Volunteering Coordinator, you’ll recruit, train, and place volunteers across Trust sites, ensuring they positively impact patient experience and staff wellbeing.

You’ll manage day-to-day operations, supervise volunteers, coordinate activity, and work with staff to identify roles that add value. Strong organisational skills, excellent communication, and the ability to work collaboratively are essential. Experience in volunteer management or administration is desirable.

You’ll also monitor impact through data collection and champion volunteering to drive continuous improvement. If you’re passionate about people and creating change, we’d love to hear from you.

The Volunteering Coordinator will work alongside the Volunteer Services Manager and link with the wider Volunteering & Community Wellbeing Services team, to manage the recruitment of volunteers across Trust sites. The post holder will be involved in all elements of recruitment, training and support, from advert through to placement of volunteers, utilising our volunteer database, Better Impact.

The post holder will organise the day to day running of the service, coordinating volunteer activity, supervising and supporting volunteers and dealing promptly with the receiving and issuing of requests.

The role will include all elements of project delivery from volunteer role development, to liaising with staff members to promote the service. The post holder will work with key contacts to identify tasks and priority areas where volunteers will enhance services, have a positive impact on patient experience and reduce pressure on staff.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'.

Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:

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Main Duties and Responsibilities

To liaise with staff to identify key impactful tasks and develop volunteer role descriptions to reflect the duties required.

Promote volunteer roles to attract and recruit volunteers, based on the demand for the service.

To be the main point of contact for enquiries about volunteers.

Coordinate the day to day running of the service, including the receiving and issuing of volunteer requests.

Ensure that volunteer requests are met effectively, logging requests and volunteer availability to produce rotas and schedules to deliver a reliable service.

Supervise and support volunteers daily.

Arrange and facilitate regular meetings with volunteers and maintain good communication.

Ensure volunteers are fully supported and confident in their roles and are working within the scope of the pre-identified activities.

Respond quickly and efficiently to situations which may require re-allocation of volunteers.

Carry out risk assessments of all volunteer activity to ensure wellbeing and safety…