Procurement and logistics service NHS Supply Chain’s workforce contributed 2,667 hours to UK charities and local causes in 2024 through its employee volunteering scheme.
NHS Supply Chain sources, delivers and supplies healthcare products, services and food for NHS trusts and healthcare organisations across England and Wales. It is based in Nottingham and employs more than 1,100 members of staff.
Each year, staff are entitled to two days’ volunteering leave to enable them to share their skills, experience and time with a charity or local cause of their choice.
NHS Supply Chain’s employees have participated in a range of volunteering activities, including preserving the environment and supporting local areas through litter picking, helping to support local charities such as foodbanks, and using practical skills to help the local community, such getting involved with local school initiatives.
Jennie Gilleeney, corporate communications manager at NHS Supply Chain, spent her volunteering days at Clifton NG11 Foodbank, which is part of the Trussell Trust.
She said: “It’s important to me that NHS Supply Chain gives us the opportunity to volunteer our time to help others locally. Spending time at the foodbank made me realise how easy it is to take what we have for granted.”
NHS Supply Chain also provides its staff with the flexibility to work collaboratively in the office and remotely through hybrid-working opportunities, an annual bonus schemes, long service, and VIP colleagues awards, one day of paid wellbeing leave each year, a 24/7 employee assistance programme, two days’ paid volunteering leave per year, Blue Light Card and NHS Discounts, and access to its flexible benefits scheme, where staff can choose from a variety of benefits such as life insurance, critical illness cover, income protection, a health cash plan, dental insurance, and additional pension contributions.
