Please use this application form to register as an NHS Volunteer Responder. NHS Volunteer Responders is currently only available in England.

After submitting this form we will send an email to verify your email address and activate your account. If you are can't find this email, please check your spam folder. If you need another activation email, please click here - Resend my activation email.

Key Information

• Before you select your role(s), please read the 'Getting You Started' guide which is provided next to each role option. This will explain how the process works and provide essential information to protect you and those you support.
• All volunteers must undergo an identification check. Please allow up to 14 days for these checks to be completed.
• To proceed with your registration, you will be asked to agree to NHS Volunteer Responders terms and conditions.
• As part of your application as a NHSVR we will need to process your personal data. Please see privacy notice.
• To become an NHS Volunteer Responder, it is essential that you have a smartphone. This is because tasks are sent to volunteers through an app.
• Ensure you remember the password and email address you provide on this form. You will need these to log in to the app.

Please select your local authority area *

Adur Allerdale Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barking and Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Bath and North East Somerset Bedford Bexley Birmingham Blaby Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bolsover Bolton Boston Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Bracknell Forest Bradford Braintree Breckland Brent Brentwood Brighton/Hove Bristol, City of Broadland Bromley Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Bury Calderdale Cambridge Camden Cannock Chase Canterbury Carlisle Castle Point Central Bedfordshire Charnwood Chelmsford Cheltenham Cherwell Cheshire East Cheshire West and Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Chorley City of London Colchester Copeland Corby Cornwall Cotswold County Durham Coventry Craven Crawley Croydon Dacorum Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Dales Doncaster Dorset Dover Dudley Ealing East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Hampshire East Hertfordshire East Lindsey East Staffordshire East Suffolk Eastbourne Eastleigh Eden Elmbridge Enfield Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fareham Fenland Forest of Dean Fylde Gateshead Gedling Gloucester Gosport Gravesham Great Yarmouth Greenwich Guildford Hackney Halton Hambleton Hammersmith and Fulham Harborough Haringey Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hart Hartlepool Hastings Havant Havering Herefordshire, County of Hertsmere High Peak Hilingdon Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Hounslow Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Isle of Wight Islington Kensington Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Kingston upon Hull, City of Kingston upon Thames Kirklees Knowsley Lambeth Lancaster Leeds Leicester Lewes Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool Luton Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Manchester Mansfield Medway Melton Mendip Merton Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle-under-Lyme Newham North Devon North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Lincolnshire North Norfolk North Somerset North Tyneside North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire Northampton Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton & Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oldham Oxford Pendle Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redbridge Redcar and Cleveland Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmond upon Thames Richmondshire Rochdale Rochford Rossendale Rother Rotherham Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland Ryedale Salford Sandwell Scarborough Sedgemoor Sefton Selby Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepway Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset West and Taunton South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Gloucestershire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Somerset South Staffordshire South Tyneside Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spelthorne St Albans St. Helens Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Sunderland Surrey Heath Sutton Swale Swindon Tameside Tamworth Tandridge Teignbridge Telford and Wrekin Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torridge Tower Hamlets Trafford Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest Wandsworth Warrington Warwick Watford Waverley Wealden Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Berkshire West Devon West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Suffolk Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest York

First name *

Last name *

Email *

  
This email address already exists on the platform, if you proceed, this would overwrite your previous registration.

Date of birth
(DD/MM/YYYY) *

Mobile number *

  

Please enter your post code & address *

Please enter the FULL address and postcode.

Password *

Your password needs to have at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter and one number.

This email address already exists on the platform, if this is you, please enter your current password.

Re-enter password *

Please select your chosen role(s): *

Please note that all roles require access to transport except Check in and Chat: - Check in and Chat Volunteer     (Getting You Started Guide) - Community Response Volunteer     (Getting You Started Guide) - NHS Transport Volunteer     (Getting You Started Guide) - Volunteer Steward (COVID-19 Vaccination) and Non Clinical Support Volunteer     (Getting You Started Guide)

Roles requiring an enhanced DBS: - Check in and Chat Plus Volunteer*     (Getting You Started Guide) - Community Response Plus Volunteer*     (Getting You Started Guide) - Patient Transport Volunteer*     (Getting You Started Guide) - Volunteer Vaccinator** - St John Ambulance     (Getting You Started Guide) - Vaccination Care Volunteer** - St John Ambulance     (Getting You Started Guide) - Volunteer Patient Advocate** - St John Ambulance     (Getting You Started Guide)
* An existing enhanced DBS is required, issued within the last 12 months.
** An enhanced DBS is required, issued within the last 2 years. You will still be able to apply without a DBS if you are willing for SJA to process a DBS on your behalf, before starting your role. You can only select a single SJA role.

Qualifications *

In order to become a Volunteer Vaccinator, you will need ONE of the following qualifications. Please select to confirm your qualification or deselect the Vaccinator role to progress with other roles available:

You will be asked to provide evidence of this to St John Ambulance as part of your recruitment process.

If you select "None of the above", we will deselect the vaccinator role.
2 A-levels or equivalent/above NVQ Level 3 or equivalent/above HNC HND BTEC None of the above

Confirmation *

As you have selected Volunteer Vaccinator, you will need to confirm some additional requirements:

• I am aged 18 or over
• If I were trained to do so, I would feel comfortable using a needle to give an injection, and possibly dealing with blood
• I do not have a phobia of needles

If you can not confirm, we will deselect the vaccinator role.
I can confirm the above I am not able to confirm the above

Do you have any unspent convictions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974? *

No Yes   
Please disclose whether you have any unspent convictions, this includes any driving offences. Independent guidance on whether or not a conviction is spent can be found here.

Please attach proof of identification *

If photo ID is not supplied, 2 documents will be required - please take a photograph of these 2 documents side by side and select from the following list:
Passport Photo driving licence Utility Bill (last 3months) + Bank/Credit Card statement (last 3months) Utility Bill (last 3 months + P60 Utility Bill (last 3months) + Mortgage Statement Bank/Credit Card statement (last 3months) + P60 Bank/Credit Card statement (last 3months) + Mortgage Statement P60 + Mortgage Statement   

(NO PDFs, Images only)

Do you have a current enhanced DBS valid within the last 2 years *

Yes No

  
(NO PDFs, Images only)

Please select your DBS Type *

DBS Enhanced DBS Enhanced - Adult Barred DBS Enhanced - Child Barred DBS Enhanced - Both Barred

Please enter your DBS number: *

Please enter the date that your DBS was issued: *

New DBS checks

Would you be willing for St John Ambulance to undertake an enhanced DBS prior to starting in your new role?

If you select "No" and you do not have a DBS, we will deselect the St John roles.
Yes No

Would you like to be contacted by Royal Voluntary Service about taking on other volunteering opportunities for:

- Royal Voluntary Service Yes No
- NHS Yes No
- St John Ambulance Yes No

Would you like to be contacted by GoodSAM about becoming a cardiac arrest volunteer and other volunteering opportunities?

Yes No

Terms and Conditions

   I agree to the NHS Volunteer Responder Terms and Conditions.

   I heard about this volunteering opportunity via The Sun newspaper.

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