Working alongside the Volunteer Manager for Hospitals, the Volunteer Officer for Hospitals will provide support to deliver our ambitious volunteer strategy. This role will be responsible for the recruitment, training, induction and recognition of volunteers in our hospitals. The person will:

Ensure that volunteers in hospital roles are recruited in line with charity recruitment procedures following SAFER recruitment practices and NHS England recruitment procedures as appropriate.
Build and maintain successful relationships with key stakeholders across the charity, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, and organisations across Leeds.
Support the development and delivery of a recruitment plan for hospitals volunteering to ensure recruitment targets are met.
Support on delivering a communication strategy that underpins recruitment targets for the hospitals.
Ensure that all volunteers are offered an inclusive, rewarding, sustainable and equitable reward and recognition programme that regularly says thank you and aids retention.
Responsible for ensuring that the volunteer management database (CRM) is kept up to date for hospital volunteering and utilised in line with internal processes.
Deliver a volunteer training programme that ensures every volunteer in hospital roles receives appropriate mandatory and optional training as required by their role and has the opportunity for additional learning and development opportunities.

Do you have experience in recruitment? Do you have a knack for building strong and meaningful relationships? If so, we want to speak to you., 2+ years' experience of recruiting volunteers or paid staff.
Have a passion to work with and support volunteers of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.
Knowledge and understanding of volunteer best practice.
Knowledge of safeguarding and GDPR in a volunteer setting.
Experience of designing and delivering training in different formats.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including networking, influencing and relationship-building skills.