Join our team as a Support Volunteer
About the Support Volunteer role
Volunteer Manager: Support Worker/ Support Services Manager
Commitment: Minimum of 1-2 hours per Month, we’d love it if you could do more. This can be agreed with the Support Services Manager
Available locations: In one of our 18 houses
How you make a difference
Supporting the delivery of Life Skill sessions with the clients, including cooking, parenting, money and budgeting, healthy relationships.
What you’ll be doing
- Supporting activities inside and outside the house with the clients and Support Workers including cooking, parenting, money and budgeting, healthy relationships.
- Role modelling good listening, kindness and compassion
- Supporting clients to fill out forms and access the local community
- Ensure all Health & Safety and Safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to
- Acting as an ambassador for Life
What it's like being a Support Volunteer
“I’ve been volunteering teaching weekly or fortnightly cooking life skills for nearly a year now. I love getting to know the girls and their babies, earning their trust and bonding with them over cooking! The loveliest time has been meeting one client who was pregnant throughout our cooking sessions, seeing her pregnancy progress and then finally meeting her baby for the first time! That was very special. It’s amazing how rewarding volunteering is – definitely go for it!”
Oli, Support Volunteer
The skills you'll need
No formal experience is needed, but a passion for supporting people and knowledge/ skills to share are desirable, as well as:
- Friendly and helpful
- Happy to be part of an amazing team
- Ability to work independently, as part of a team and use initiative
- Good listening and communication skills
- Patience and sensitivity
- Reliability
What's in it for you
We want to make sure you have enough information to carry out your voluntary
role . We will:
- Provide induction, information and training to enable you to carry out your volunteering effectively.
- Support your personal development by offering appropriate induction,
training and feedback opportunities. - Provide policies, procedures and standards of the organisation in relation to
Volunteering. - Provide regular organisational communication and updates.
Essential requirements
Over 18 years old
Benefits of Volunteering at Life
- A chance to work in a friendly team
- The feel good factor of helping Life meet its charitable aims
- Develop your confidence and interpersonal skills
- Learning new skills
- Flexibility to fit in with your lifestyle around your other ongoing commitments
What we need from you
A Disclosure and Barring Service Check for this voluntary role is required
We do ask for two references as part of our commitment to safer recruitment .
A signed agreement between us and you for the duration of volunteering
Next steps
Please complete our volunteer application form and we will arrange an informal
chat and provide you with further details about the opportunity to ensure it’s right
for you before you decide to go through our volunteer recruitment process for the
role.
Not sure this is the role for you? Give us a call on 01926 312272 to find out more or you can find more volunteer roles available here.
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