Volunteer to Career

On this page you can find out about our grants programme to help hospices train and recruit volunteers into clinical careers.

These grants are supported by the Rank Foundation.

About the programme

Through our Volunteer to Career programme we have awarded grants of £10,000 each to 7 hospices to support the professional development and recruitment of volunteers considering a career in healthcare.

In addition to the funding grant, Hospice UK and partner charity Helpforce is:

helping each participating hospice to identify and build internal capacity to deliver the work
helping each hospice to find and match interested volunteers from their local communities
providing a blended learning programme for participating hospice Clinical Leads, who will work within their hospices to mentor the new volunteers
helping with project planning and data collection to build evidence of the value of the project.

How does it work?

The volunteers taking part in Volunteer to Career will undertake 60 hours of certificated training over the course of one year.

This training will require support from a dedicated Clinical Lead at their hospice.

By the end of their training, volunteers will be supported onto a career pathway aligned to their hospice’s identified workforce needs. This might be via a university course, workplace apprenticeship, or paid employment route into eventually becoming a healthcare assistant or nursing associate.