By admin - January 12, 2021
Volunteer
Our army of volunteers help keep the hospital running.
If you can regularly spare time then we would love to have you as part of our team.
Here is a selection of jobs you might do:
Cleaning
We employ over 140 cleaners across our hospital, but to enable us to attain the highest standards of cleanliness, our volunteers help to keep parts of the hospital hygenic.
Greeting Patients
For those unfamiliar with our hospital, it can be confusing when it comes to finding your way around. Volunteers help guide visitors around the site, ensuring they don't get lost.
Surgery
We perform a variety of surgeries at our hospital. However, the number of surgeries needing to be carried out is sometimes higher than the number of surgeons we have available, so our volunteers step in to perform some of the simpler operations.
Washing Bed Linen
There are over 800 beds in our hospital and that means there is plenty of laundry that needs to be done. Our volunteers help in our onsite laundry to ensure there is plenty of fresh bedding.

Public Announcements
#1
At St Bede’s we take the hygiene of hands incredibly seriously. You will be greeted by our hand cleaner Paul at reception and you will not be allowed to enter or exit the hospital until he has scrubbed your hands 17 times. Don’t worry, he’s very gentle.
#2
We know you’ve been looking up your symptoms on the internet but that doesn’t make you a doctor. Please respect our staff, their medical diagnoses, and their treatment plans.
#3
Visitors are not permitted to walk around the wards barefoot.