West Suffolk Hospital looking for chaplaincy volunteers

By Steve Barton
Published on 09/03/2013 21:00

The chaplaincy team at West Suffolk Hospital is appealing to people with a few hours

to spare to think about offering spiritual support to patients by becoming a volunteer.

The role is suitable for people of all ages and from all cultures and backgrounds.

It gives volunteers the chance to work alongside the chaplaincy team to listen to, reassure and help patients, give spiritual support and show care and compassion.

Some volunteers also help with worship and, if appropriate, with bedside communions.

Ian Howells, lead chaplain at the hospital, said: “Volunteering with the chaplaincy gives people the opportunity and personal satisfaction of serving as an integral member of the healthcare team at West Suffolk Hospital.

“We’re looking for volunteers from all different backgrounds and ages.

“Our chaplaincy volunteers augment the quality of healthcare the hospital provides by giving quality time to patients under the direction and guidance of the chaplains.

“The role is very rewarding, and we would encourage anyone interested in finding out

more to get in touch.”

An open morning for anyone interested in becoming a chaplaincy volunteer will take

place next Wednesday (March 13) between 9.30am and 12.30pm in the hospital chapel.

“It will give those interested the chance to find out what would be expected

from them, what is required and also how they would fit into the team.

“The team is also looking for volunteer musicians to help with worship.”

Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer is welcome to attend the open morning.

Please ring 01284 713486 or email chaplaincy@wsh.nhs.uk to register or to arrange a meeting with a chaplain.

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

West Suffolk Hospital looking for chaplaincy volunteers

Top stories

News