Online Application Form

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with NHS Lothian. Please make sure you have read all the information on our applying to be a volunteer page, are able to manage our minimum commitments and are willing and able to take part in our training programme before starting your application. 

PLEASE NOTE: For the majority of our volunteering roles, we ask for a regular weekly commitment at the same time and day each week. Please ensure you can commit to this before applying to volunteer with us. If your availability varies from week to week and you cannot make this weekly commitment e.g., you do shift work with varying shift patterns, we will be unable to place you in a volunteering role at this time.

Our Youth Volunteering Programme is now open. 

Who is this suitable for? Are you aged 16-25? Are you looking to volunteer in a hospital setting? Perhaps you’re considering future employment within health and social care or just looking to gain experience and build your CV? If so, our Youth Volunteering Programme might be for you. Open to applications twice a year, our youth volunteering programme enables young people aged 16-25 the unique opportunity to volunteer within a hospital setting.

We are currently recruiting:

40 Ward Helpers and Meaningful Activity Volunteers at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (day time, evening and weekend sessions available). Please note interview dates for volunteering at the Royal Infirmary are: Thursday 5 June, Friday 6 June and Friday 13 June. Please ensure you can attend at least one of these interview dates as we are unable to offer alternatives during this recruitment round. Training will be a mixture of online and in-person training. Please ensure you can attend at least one of these in-person training dates at the Royal Infirmary: Monday 16 June, Friday 20 June and Tuesday 24 June. We are unable to offer alternative training dates during this recruitment round.

40 Ward Helpers and Meaningful Activity Volunteers at St John’s Hospital (evening and weekend sessions available). Please note interview dates for volunteering at St John’s Hospital are: Friday 27 June and Monday 30 June. Please ensure you can attend at least one of these interview dates as we are unable to offer alternatives during this recruitment round. Training will be a mixture of online and in-person training. Please ensure you can attend at least one of these in-person training dates at St John’s Hospital: Friday 11 July and Monday 14 July. We are unable to offer alternative training dates during this recruitment round.

20 Ward Helpers at the Western General Hospital (evening and weekend sessions available). Please note interview dates for volunteering at the Western General Hospital are: Friday 13 June and Friday 20 June. Please ensure you can attend at least one of these interview dates as we are unable to offer alternatives during this recruitment round. Training will be a mixture of online and in-person training. Please ensure you can attend at least one of these in-person training dates at the Western General Hospital: Friday 4 July and Friday 11 July. We are unable to offer alternative training dates during this recruitment round.

For information on our different sites and where we are currently recruiting volunteers, please read our Volunteering Opportunities page. Please ensure you check this page before submitting your application, applications for locations and roles not listed cannot be progressed at this time.

Once you have submitted your online application form, we will be in touch with you via the email address you have provided. Please check your junk/spam folder if you have not heard from us within 7 working days.