Kitchen Volunteer

Havens Hospices provides specialist care and support to adults and children living with complex or incurable conditions. By volunteering for Havens Hospices, you are helping make every day count for the people we care for, including their families.

Havens Hospices is committed to safeguarding patients and their families, visitors, staff and volunteers. The recruitment of all staff, volunteers and trustees is robust and follows principles for Safer Recruitment.

Our values are: Care and compassion, Commitment, Community, Courage and Integrity and each of our volunteers help us to achieve our core values.

When you volunteer for us as a bistro volunteer, there is a variety of tasks such as; Serving customers, taking food orders, operating the till, clearing tables and replenishing stock.

We would be looking for a 4 hour commitment each week but you can choose to volunteer more if you wish.

We also offer training for this role you will need to undertake some online training courses on our E-LFH platform and a separate food hygiene course. This is all offered for free to volunteers.

For this role you will be required to undergo a DBS check.

For our volunteers roles we require satisfactory recruitment checks, maintaining confidentiality of charity information and adhering to GDPR (Data protection) regulations and carrying out your role to the best of your ability, enthusiasm and professionalism.

We look to cover out of pocket travel expenses (excluding taxes), offer a certificate of volunteering upon request, thank you events for volunteers, celebrating volunteer week and a named manager to support you in your role.