Volunteer to Career

A workforce programme to support hospices to train and recruit volunteers into clinical careers.

Supported by the Rank Foundation.

About the programme

Hospice UK’s Volunteer to Career programme 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 will:

help each participating hospice to identify and build internal capacity to deliver the work
help each hospice to find and match interested volunteers from their local communities
provide a blended learning programme for participating hospice Clinical Leads, who will work within their hospices to mentor the new volunteers
help 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 your hospice’s identified workforce needs i.e. either via a university course, workplace apprenticeship, or paid employment route into eventually becoming a healthcare assistant (clinical band 2 or 3) or a nursing associate (clinical band 4).