NHS Volunteering opportunities with Bradford District Care Trust (July 2026)

Roles available this month: Gardening Group Volunteer – Lynfield Mount Hospital, Bradford BD9 6DP Gardening Group Volunteer – Airedale Centre for Mental Health, Steeton BD20 6TD Gardening Assistant Volunteer – Various Locations Volunteers play an important role within our Trust, providing support to those people who use our services. We welcome people from all groups and communities who would like to share their skills and experience or gain and develop new skills and experience. We offer a range of support to volunteers. If you have any questions about what it’s like to volunteer with us, please get in touch. Volunteering opportunities are available across the Bradford, Airedale and Craven District. We have a wide range of services, many of which have volunteers. We recruit new volunteers every month. If one month you don’t see a role that you’d really like to do, please do check the next month- we manage a diverse range of roles across our clinical and non-clinical services so it is worth waiting until there’s a role that is a great match for your interests, skills and experience. Roles will be open for applications from 1st of every month to 22nd. Do get in touch to join our mailing list and hear about roles first: volunteer@bdct.nhs.uk We reserve the right to close roles early if we receive a high number of applications. Before applying, we ask that volunteers consider their availability within the next few months - our opportunities are not short-term and recruitment checks can take around 2-3 months to complete. These recruitment checks include DBS check, references, right to work and online training. You will also need attend a face-to-face Welcome Workshop, Breakaway training and an Infection Prevention session. Please apply for one role only and list any other roles in which you are interested on your application form in order of preference.

Roles available:

Gardening Group Volunteer – Lynfield Mount Hospital, Bradford BD9 6DP As a Gardening Group Volunteer you will support the Nature Recovery Ranger and the Occupational Therapy team facilitating the therapeutic horticulture programme/gardening sessions with patients from various wards. Apply here Please visit: https://bdct.production.assemble.npe.accessacloud.com/opportunities/118543-gardening-group-volunteer-lynfield-mount-hospital-uob-2026-07-01 Minimum age 18 Closing date 22 July 2026

Roles available this month: Gardening Group Volunteer – Airedale Centre for Mental Health, Steeton BD20 6TD As a Gardening Group Volunteer you will support the Nature Recovery Ranger and the Occupational Therapy team facilitating the therapeutic horticulture programme/gardening sessions with patients from various wards. Apply here Please visit: https://bdct.production.assemble.npe.accessacloud.com/opportunities/118544-gardening-group-volunteer-airedale-centre-uob-2026-07-01 Minimum age 18 Closing date 22 July 2026

Gardening Assistant Volunteer – Various locations We're looking for volunteers to support the Nature Recovery Ranger across the Trust with nature conservation and gardening tasks to improve the outdoor spaces on our sites - both for wildlife and the people that use the grounds. Apply here Please visit: https://bdct.production.assemble.npe.accessacloud.com/opportunities/118549-gardening-assistant-volunteer-2026-07-01 Minimum age 18 Closing date 22 July 2026

Skills

Please see links under roles to find out about skills required for each role.