Volunteering Opportunities
City St George’s Volunteering connects you with flexible opportunities that match your skills and passions, whether you want to build your career, give back to the community or try something new.
For Clerkenwell Campus Students
City St George's Volunteering works to realise the positive impacts volunteering can have for all and aims for all our beneficiaries to have a positive experience when accessing our services.
We want to make City St George's a place where if you want to volunteer, you can. We support volunteering both as an extra-curricular activity and as embedded in the curriculum. We enable you to source meaningful, flexible and accessible opportunities across a wide range of causes, locations and roles. We consider your varying skills and motivations, whether this involves career aspirations or personal passions. We empower you to articulate their volunteer stories and the impact volunteering has on your personal and professional development.
Volunteering has a huge number of benefits for students; valuable work experience, making new friends, being part of the local community (plus many more!). Whatever your motivation is to volunteer, we’re here to support you in your volunteering journey.
A great place to start if you’re considering volunteering is to check out the current opportunities available on the City St George's Volunteering website, and apply directly to the charity.
Come on over and browse the available opportunities now.
One-to-one support
You can book a one-to-one appointment to discuss all things volunteering; whether you’re looking for your perfect volunteering role, need support applying for a role or just want to discuss volunteering generally.
Keep in touch
To keep up to date with the latest volunteering opportunities you can join the volunteering mailing list to receive monthly newsletters. If you have any questions about volunteering you can contact us by email: volunteering@city.ac.uk
Advertise your volunteering roles
If you are an organisation with volunteering roles you would like to advertise to our students, please visit our Recruit with City St George's page for full guidance
For Tooting Campus Students
City St George’s University of London offers a range of hospital volunteering opportunities at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, giving current students and alumni the chance to support patients, staff and services while gaining valuable experience.
Hospital Volunteers Opportunities
Cit St George's University of London welcomes volunteers to St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a way of involving local people in the day-to-day running of our services and offering them the opportunity to contribute to patient care in ways which may not be available through the conventional NHS.
To be a volunteer, you need to be over 18 years of age, living within the local area and be available for a minimum of three hours a week, for at least six months – mainly office hours, Monday – Friday.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust do provide assistance with local travel expenses and meal vouchers are supplied within certain criteria for volunteers.
Visit the How to Apply page to access an application form.
Below are just a few examples of services with which volunteers can become involved:
Trust Volunteer Roles
- Hospital Guides – directing and escorting patients and their visitors around the site
- Assisting at Mealtimes – Helping patients eat who can feed themselves
- Basic administration tasks
- Emergency Department
- Spiritual Care – To work in partnership with the Chaplains to provide high quality spiritual, pastoral and faith-based care to patients, relatives and staff members
Patient Partners
As well as recruiting volunteers who assist in the delivery of services, St George’s University Hospitals are also looking for patient partners, these are also volunteers but the time they contribute to the Trust is used to develop and transform services. Patient Partners get involved and in specific projects to improve services using their skills and experience as patients and work in partnership with staff.
Patient Assessors
There is recruitment for volunteers who carry out inspections across the Trust, there are weekly departmental inspections and much larger annual inspections involving multiple areas and the hospital environment.
Alumni Volunteering Opportunities
As an alumni, you can share your career journey or help interview prospective students. Your unique experience can inspire the next generation at City St George’s, and we’ll provide all the guidance and training you need to get involved.
Read more about our volunteering opportunities for Tooting Campus alumni and stay connected.