Voluntary Services Lead

Part time: up to 30 hours per week, with days and hours flexible. There will be a need to work until 5pm one afternoon per week and occasional evenings or weekend days.

Up to £26,000 per annum for 30 hours per week (FTE salary £32,500)

Apply by 9th October 2025

Are you a clear, confident communicator and who can lead and engage a variety of audiences including volunteers, internal teams and external stakeholders. Do you enjoy shaping and organising services and inspiring others to achieve shared goals?

Can you manage complex relationships with professionalism and positivity?

Are you highly organized, with excellent time management and the ability to collaborate effectively?

If so, you could be the person we are looking for to join the St Rocco’s team as our new Voluntary Services Lead, to lead the way in delivering an exceptional volunteer experience across St Rocco’s, ensuring that every volunteer feels valued and supported – and that their work makes a meaningful impact to the work of the hospice.

At St Rocco’s we believe in the power of volunteering to change lives – for both our volunteers and our patients and those who are important to them.

What you’ll do:

• Lead on the development and delivery of our volunteering strategy and action plans
• Design and coordinate inclusive recruitment campaigns
• Support services to develop meaningful volunteer roles
• Work collaboratively to identify, design and implement volunteer-led services to extend our reach and impact
• Drive volunteer development, recognition and retention initiatives
• Analyse volunteering metrics to inform opportunities and improvements
• Champion equity, diversity and inclusion within the volunteer workforce
What we are looking for:
• Significant operational experience leading teams and managing services, ideally in the voluntary sector
• A successful track record of delivering operational projects
• Strong experience in designing and implementing efficient operational processes which deliver organisational value and manage risk
What we offer
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer the members of our team the following:
• Annual leave 27 days plus 8 days bank holiday (pro rata for part time staff)
• A positive approach to flexible working
• Generous pension scheme – up to 7% hospice contributions
• Death in service benefit of 2 times your salary
• Occupational sick pay
• Healthcare cash plan offering cash back on optical, dental and many other health related costs
• Eligibility for the Blue Light card offering a wide range of discounts
• Recognition for your contribution and service through our staff awards schemes
• A programme of support for your wellbeing at work

You’ll be joining a passionate and supportive team here at St. Rocco’s, working in a flexible environment where you can shape meaningful volunteer experiences and make a lasting difference.

Alongside an incredible team and like-minded peers, you’ll be working with our brilliant present and future volunteers to help us to continue to deliver our amazing work.

Interested? Please take a look at the job description and person specification  if you think you are a good fit for the role, we’d love to hear from you. Please submit a copy of your current CV and a supporting statement of no more than two pages describing how you’d be a great fit for the role.