Here are some of the ways that you can get involved with St Mary's, Paddington:
Friends’ Shops and Tea Bar Patient Feedback – you would be assisting patients in giving their views to the hospital’s PALS (Patient and Liaison Service) about their experience of the hospital. You would be working with the PALS team and training and supervision will be provided.
Ward Volunteers These placements are essentially to provide patients with services which the nursing staff are unable to provide on a busy ward eg chatting to patients, running errands for them, keeping an eye to ensure that they are eating their meals, etc. NB Theses placements are extremely popular and there can be no guarantee that any will be available at he time of any application. Ward shoppers We provide a service where volunteers serve a group of wards seeing if patients would like any purchases from the various shops in the hospital.

Outpatient Departments Volunteers can help in a variety of ways – escorting patients to other parts of the hospital, dealing with simple enquiries or directing patients to a proper source. This is increasingly an area where volunteers are being used. Library trolley We would like to extend this service which takes books around the wards for patients – it provides an ideal opportunity for chatting to patients even if they don’t wish to borrow books! Alexander Fleming Museum Volunteers act as guides to the museum and serve in the small souvenir shop there. Chapel volunteers Volunteers take wheelchair bound patients to and from their wards and the Hospital Chapel on Sunday mornings.