{"id":1357,"date":"2026-10-21T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:45:28","slug":"online-application-form","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/volunteering\/online-application-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Application Form"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for your interest in volunteering with NHS Lothian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please make sure you have read all the information on our&nbsp;<a href=\"\/getinvolved\/applying-to-be-a-volunteer\/\">applying to be a volunteer<\/a>&nbsp;page, are able to manage our minimum commitments and are willing and able to take part in our interview and training programme before starting your application.&nbsp;To help us manage the number of applications we receive and to support new volunteers to get started as quickly as possible, our applications to volunteer are only open at certain points in the year. You can find the details of our upcoming recruitment dates below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Upcoming Volunteer Recruitment:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applications to the following volunteering locations will open the week beginning 18th January 2027:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>East Lothian Community Hospital<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>St John&#8217;s Hospital<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Royal Hospital for Children and Young People<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Edinburgh Community Hospitals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Department of Clinical Neuroscience. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applications to the following volunteering locations will open the week beginning 1st March 2027: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Western General Hospital<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Midlothian Community Hospital<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(DRAFT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":575,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-1357","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/blog\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"(DRAFT)","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1357\/revisions\/2196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhslothian.scot\/getinvolved\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}