St Giles Hospice - Our Five Year Strategy - 2017-2022 St Giles Five Year Strategy 2017 | Page 11
“St Giles treats everyone
as an individual.
They’ve encouraged
me to live every day
to the fullest. I’m not
just a person who’s got
cancer. I’m me again.”
1,481
current volunteers
We have a responsibility to make Over the next five years we aim to:
sure that our team is supported
Improve the range of
and cared for during their time
opportunities for volunteering by
with St Giles. They need to be
providing increased flexibility and
resilient and able to cope with
a better recruitment process
their role in offering care and
compassion to our patients, their
Improve the way we recruit
loved ones, our communities and
by being more engaging and
each other.
better promoting the career
opportunities that St Giles
We aim to ensure that we are a
can provide
fair and compassionate employer,
whilst also ensuring our patients
Develop ways of supporting our
are our first priority. We recognise
team’s resilience, in particular
that our team have different needs
our non-clinical team members,
when it comes to time commitment,
to increase their ability and
working patterns, career choices
confidence to live and work
and family circumstances.
with illness, dying and grieving
We offer interesting and varied
career opportunities with differing
working patterns. For clinical staff,
hospice care provides wide-ranging
opportunities to deliver truly
person-centred care combined with
specialist skills. We ensure that
our team have the time, training
and support required to provide
excellent care. Jobs are advertised
on our website but our turnover is
low – so do keep popping back to
have a look.
We offer a wide range of
volunteering opportunities whether
working in our shops, supporting
administrative functions, training
to be a bereavement support
volunteer, working as part of our
reception team or supporting
patients in our day activities or on
our wards. If you are interested in
volunteering please email:
Build on the success of
our changes to internal
communications, helping
everyone at St Giles feel a full
and valued part of our team
6,118
hours per week
donated by our
volunteers in 2016
[email protected]
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