Volunteers

Do you want to...

• Help patients/visitors/staff/colleagues
• Make a difference to the community
• Try something new and develop valuable skills 
• Contribute to supporting your hospital through challenging times
• Use your experience and skills in a productive way
• Make new friends, keep active and have fun?

Are you...

• Patient and people focused
• Respectful, adaptable and dependable
• A great comminucator, listener and empathiser
• Able to work well as a team member
• Approachable and comfortable approaching others
• Dedicated to providing excellent service
• Compassionate?

If you want to make a difference to your community, please read through our criteria for volunteering and browse through our available roles. 

Please note - We are a volunteer service, we do not provide Work Experience or Shadowing. For work experience, please follow this link - Work Experience :: Northern Care Alliance

To become a volunteer at the NCA:

• You must be 18 or over for all our roles, except for Summer 60 programme (16-19), applications open around March
• You must be situated within 5 miles of your desired care organisation. Please use the attatched link and select the ‘As the Crow Flies' calculator to check if you are within our catchment area -  https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm
• You must be able to produce 3 pieces of documentation for check ID Checks and DBS
• You must be able to provide 2 references, professional and/or personal. We will only accept references from professonal email addresses (for example, we will NOT accept references from Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc.)
• You must be able to commit to a minimum of 12 months in your volunteering role 
• You must be able to commit to a specified number of hours per week, dependant on the role. Please see our Volunteering Brochure for more details on how many hours will be required for each role
• You must be able to complete all mandatrory training/inductions required for your role

For more information about acceptable documentation, reference etc. please see our FAQ page

We have a number of volunteer roles available across our care organisations. Please browse through our volunteer brochure to find your perfect role. 

Volunteer Brochure

Summer 60 Volunteering Programme - Volunteers aged between 16 & 19 years old

• The Summer 60 Volunteer Programme invites people aged 16 - 19 years old to join our NCA Volunteering Programmes over the summer months. ​

• Volunteers sign up to complete 60 hours of volunteering at our NCA hospitals.​

• Welcoming younger volunteers not only supports our services, patients, and colleagues, it is good for you too. You can gain new skills, confidence, and experience as well as exposure you to the diverse careers available within the NHS.

If you are aged between 16-19, and would like to join our Summer 60 programme, please keep an eye out for updates on our website . Applications for 2026 will open around March 2026.

We appreciate and carefully assess every single application form we recieve to join of volunteer service. Unfortunatly, the volunteer application process is highly competitive and we cannot accept everyone who applies to be a volunteer. 

Phone

Rochdale Infirmary
Tel: 01706 517378

Fairfield General Hospital, Bury
Tel: 0161 778 3608

Salford Royal Hospital
Tel: 0161 206 8942

Royal Oldham Hospital
Tel: 0161 656 1518

Email

For Bury, Oldham & Rochdale - volunteer@nca.nhs.uk

For Salford - volunteer.salford@nca.nhs.uk

Once you have read through our information online and browsed our Volunteer Brochure to see what roles we have available, please click on the below link to follow the application form for your desired organisation.

BURY - MyImpactPage - Bury

SALFORD - MyImpactPage - Salford Royal Hospital 

ROCHDALE - MyImpactPage - Rochdale Infirmary

OLDHAM - MyImpactPage - Oldham