1st – 7th June 2018 is Volunteers Week celebrating the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make across the UK.
At Woking & Sam Beare Hospices we have over 800 amazing volunteers working for us in a huge variety of roles, retail assistant’s in one of our seventeen charity shops, receptionist’s at the hospice, providing complementary therapies to in patients and day care patients, Ebay assistants spotting the gems donated to our warehouse to help raise vital funds or working at our new hospice café.
There are lots of reason why people choose to volunteer, the opportunity to give something back to a community charity that once supported them or their families or a chance to develop new skills but for whatever reason it may be we simply couldn’t manage without you.
“We really do appreciate everything our volunteers do for us” commented Jayne Cooper CEO “They play such a crucial role in helping us it to continue to provide care to our patients and their families across north west surrey”.
If you are interested in volunteering for us you can find out more here and all our current volunteering opportunities here
21st September 2017
Celebrating over 900 years’ service
The 49 volunteers that Founder Rhod Lofting and CEO Jayne Cooper presented a symbol of the hospice’s thanks to total more than 900 years’ service, which is outstanding.
Jayne Cooper, CEO of Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, commented: “We could not do all we do without this incredible group of people, who give us their time and support to help us care for patients, manage our reception, support our events and community team, run our shops, look after our gardens; the list is endless. Our volunteers are critical. We value and appreciate every single person who supports us, but it is particularly humbling to be presenting to those that have been with us so many years – thank you.”
We has now been open for patients in your new state-of-the-art hospice in Goldsworth Park Centre since May. As the gardens are completed by RHS Chelsea Flower Show Gold Award Winner Charlotte Harris and the café opens to the public, the finishing touches to this fantastic new facility are really starting to come together. But like so many other charities, we are reliant on voluntary income and supporters such as its volunteers enable us to care for over 1,400 patients who have life-limiting and terminal illness each year.
We are always happy to meet new individuals who would like to share their skills by volunteering in a number of available roles. Whether you wish to gain work experience, meet new people and/or give something back to your community, you can give huge value to Woking & Sam Beare Hospices.
You can find out more about volunteering with us here.
13th September 2017
Nursing Recruitment Fair well attended
On Wednesday 13 September we hosted a nursing recruitment fair at our new state-of-the-art hospice in Goldsworth Park, Woking. Health care professionals were given the opportunity to meet our fantastic and compassionate team, ask lots of questions and see our fabulous new facility with leading experts in palliative care, all set within a wonderful environment.
If you didn’t get a chance to come along, then you can still contact us, as we’re always looking for nurses who are passionate about end-of-life care in both the community and in an in-patient setting, and who embrace evidence based practice to provide the best patient focused care possible. You will be joining a highly professional, compassionate, empathetic, calm and positive team, where everyone from our housekeeping team all the way up to the Chief Executive are highly motivated to deliver the best care possible to the hundreds of patients and their families that we look after each year.
“This is more than a job and every day we can go home knowing that we’ve made a real difference to someone’s life and added great value,” Deputy Director of Nursing, Kelly Beckta.
By joining Woking & Sam Beare Hospices you will be part of an exciting new development in specialist palliative and end-of-life care, and will help deliver the very best to patients and their families and carers.
The work of the hospice is hugely important to the local community and you will be a part of a team that makes a real and lasting difference to hundreds of patients and families each year.
“We are highly patient focused and take the time to look after families, carers and one another too,” Deputy Director of Nursing, Kelly Beckta.
We offer exceptional educational support via our in-house Practice Development Team and opportunities to attend palliative care modules, NHS Superannuation is recognised or we offer a 5% contributory pension scheme, clinical supervision is provided and childcare vouchers are available.
Other benefits include:
Working in a supportive environment within an organisation that offers a good work/life balance
Excellent training and development opportunities within an onsite education centre lead by sector experts
On-site café
Bike to work scheme
and much, much more
For more information please contact our HR Team on 01483 178850 for an informal chat or email recruitment@wsbhospices.co.uk.
Woking & Sam Beare Hospices is a patient-centred charity that delivers specialist palliative care to the whole family. Our new hospice is located in Goldsworth Park Centre, Woking, but over 75% of our care is in the community across Spelthorne, Runnymede, West Elmbridge, Surrey Heath, Woking and North Guildford.
Our new state-of-the-art 20 bedroom hospice, each with en-suite bathrooms and balconies, was opened to our first patients in mid-May 2017. Our facility also boasts a Retreat Garden and a Wildlife Garden designed by landscape gardener Charlotte Harris, who won gold at the 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show, as well as excellent onsite staff facilities.
You can also read this inspiring interview with our CEO, Jayne Cooper, about how she got to where she is now and why working for Woking & Sam Beare is so rewarding.
All our current nursing and clinical vacancies are listed here.