Relaxation Volunteers

We provide complementary therapies to patients, carers and bereaved relatives. If you have no qualifications in this area but are interested in supporting our team, we will train you to provide hand and foot massage.

Volunteer role

Relaxation Volunteer

Volunteer manager

Sally Woods

Where you will be based

Hospice

Why we want you

If you have no qualifications but are interested in being part of our Complementary Therapy team and supporting our patients, we will train you to provide hand and foot massages.

What you will be doing

• Learning about hand and foot massage
• Preparing for each client ensuring that you have the relevant information and the room is prepared
• Providing hand and foot massage to our patients
• Ensuring cleanliness, tidiness and ambience of treatment room

The skills you need

• Compassion and kindness with everybody, remembering that this may be a difficult time in their life
• Have excellent communication and organisational skills
• Understand patient confidentiality
• Be emotionally resilient
• Be able to follow policies and procedures

What's in it for you

• Bespoke training for the role
• Appropriate mandatory classroom based training and online modules
• Support and mentoring from the Complementary Therapy Team
• Support from the Volunteer Services Team
• Volunteering Handbook and Role Profile

Disclaimer

We are committed to protecting and keeping you safe. Therefore, we have a comprehensive selection, checking and ongoing management process in place. A Disclosure and Barring check may be necessary for this role, which we will carry out. All mandatory training must be completed, and our policies and procedures complied with.