Mental Health Volunteer Roles in Home Based
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Could you use your digital marketing and social media skills to help a local London-based recovery service to increase their social media presence and reach?
Lewisham Primary Care Recovery Service (PCRS) provides a drug and alcohol treatment recovery-orientated service, offering medication assisted treatment alongside psychosocial interventions for people living in Lewisham.
Humankind has national social media accounts, but we would love to involve a volunteer to help increase PCRS’s local social media presence and engagement, generate content and also to help promote existing activities. We can provide insight and experience in the field of social media marketing for a charity, and support you in your own goals.
Please note: This role is designed so that is can be undertaken remotely, but the volunteer would still need to be based in the UK. Humankind is unfortunately not able to offer visa sponsorships.
Details of the role:
Engage with staff, service users and volunteers to gather content, quotes and stories to be shared on social media. This could involve attending online group sessions or meetings, following nationwide Humankind accounts to share relevant content on local platforms, and researching relevant local organisations / networks / initiatives.
- Support with the design of this content, using templates and brand guidelines.
- Help to promote the activities of the service
- Help create a social media plan with support from staff
- Adhere to data protection, safeguarding, social media policies, media consent and brand guidelines
- Have regular catch-ups with a supervising member of staff to evaluate progress
Practical Considerations:
This role can be undertaken remotely and with flexible timings, but it would be ideal if you were able to attend an online meeting fortnightly during 9-5 hours to discuss and plan with the supervisor for this role.
Please note, we'd need to check with you that you can access the internet /have enough mobile data if Volunteering remotely, as we want to ensure no one is out of pocket from volunteering. We will have a Humankind laptop available for this role.
Personal qualities / Experience:
- Experience using social media platforms to increase engagement, and generating content
- An interest in / willingness to learn about recovery and substance misuse services
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills
- An understanding of the importance of guidelines and procedures relating to key areas such as safeguarding and information governance.
- Respectful and non-judgemental towards service users and team
- Able to commit to volunteering regularly (though flexible when that would be)
What Volunteers Can Expect From Us:
- Regular supervision and support
- Induction and access to online and face to face training (when face-to-face training can resume)
- To gain experience of the charity sector and an opportunity to practice your skills
- To feel part of a team and the wider Humankind organisation
- Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed with proof of journey (there may not be a need to travel for this role)
Our workplace values are:
- Honest: we are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change.
- Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this by keeping people at the heart of everything that we do.
- Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt in determined pursuit of our mission.
If you would like to arrange a phone call to chat about the role please get in touch. If we are both keen to proceed we would then look to arrange an informal interview so we can understand your goals, motivations and experience.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Join Our Board of Trustees and Make a Difference!
Are you passionate about making a positive impact in your community? Do you have skills and experience that could help guide a charity to success? We are looking for dedicated and enthusiastic individuals to join our Board of Trustees.
About Us
Work Stress Solutions is an Epsom based charity with the goal to offer genuine support to anyone facing vulnerabilities, whether they are related to mental health, physical disabilities, or learning disabilities, and with your help, we can achieve even more. More information about WSS can be found on our website Work Stress Solutions - Make life work for you
Role of a Trustee
As a trustee, you will:
· Provide strategic direction and oversight
· Ensure the charity is well-managed and financially sound
· Support and challenge the team
· Act as an ambassador for the charity
What We’re Looking For
We welcome applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Skills in governance, creating effective policies, Charity law, fundraising, bid witting and local networking are particularly appreciated but all skills are valued and do make a difference. Most importantly, we seek individuals who are passionate about our cause and committed to making a difference.
What You’ll Gain
· The opportunity to make an impact in your community
· Experience in governance and strategic planning
· Networking opportunities with like-minded individuals
· Personal and professional growth
How to Apply
If you are interested in joining our Board of Trustees, please send your CV and a cover letter outlining your interest and what you can bring to the role. We look forward to hearing from you.
Join us in making a difference. Together, we can achieve great things!
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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More than 12,000 unpaid family carers are registered with us for support with their own health and wellbeing. You will be phoning to say Hello to newcomers or check in with others who may be quietly but desperately struggling.
People often feel confused about services or feel shy to "bother" us. They may feel guilty about asking for help for themselves, or simply not have time to reach out for support.
This important role connects carers to us so we can signpost to our services and other sources of support. Your friendly call may encourage them to come to an event or activity in their neighbourhood and connect with other carers. They'll know that we care.
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We are looking for volunteers to deliver fun and engaging activity sessions. Our service users love to play board games and your role would be to set up a weekly board games session. As a volunteer you will be warm, friendly and approachable and enjoy playing games such as monopoly, cluedo and others.
As part of your volunteer role you will help us by setting up the games ready to play ensuring no pieces are missing, teaching people the rules for the game, and tidying away at the end of the session. You will also promote the board games being played each week to our service users and encourage people to join in.
As a volunteer with Creative Support we offer training for your role, access to a volunteer supervisor, an induction, a monthly volunteer newsletter, and an online volunteer support network group on Zoom.
Bosworth House is a supported living service for adults with mental health needs, we currently have eight tenants with thirteen flats. Bosworth House is centrally located in Hinckley and has good transport links.
We are a passionate, inclusive and anti-racist organisation. We embrace diversity and encourage applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. As a Disability Confident Employer we welcome applications from people with a disability, and as a proud Stonewall Diversity Champion we actively encourage applications from the LGBT+ community.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Join our amazing volunteer team to make a real difference to people living with sight loss. You’ll be supporting people to come together to explore sport and physical activity in a group setting. Group members will benefit from each other’s company, knowledge, and encouragement, leading to reduced isolation, an increase in participation of sports and physical activity and new networks of support and friendship. You can support with either local and regional telephone groups or community based face-to-face groups.
What you’ll be doing
1. Meeting and greeting group members on arrival or joining virtually.
2. Creating a warm and welcoming environment.
3. Planning and delivering a programme of sports themed activities.
4. Assisting with the groups sport or physical activities (if appropriate).
What you’ll gain from the role
1. A chance to give something back in an area you are passionate about.
2. A chance to make a difference with a sense of achievement.
3. A chance to build a strong community of sports people with sight loss.
4. A chance to be part of a team of like-minded people, increasing your confidence and skills to talk to groups of people with impact, with an opportunity to develop your role into delivering independently over time.
5. Opportunity to explore different roles within our organisation including our internal recruitment vacancies.
In return for donating your time we will support you with:
1. A rewarding role
2. A great Induction and Training
3. A supportive Manager
4. Regular catch-ups
5. Expenses
6. An opportunity to connect with other volunteers
How often will I be needed?
- 4 Hours per Week
Key requirements
- This role requires 1 reference and a criminal record check.
Location
Region
- Scotland
Who this opportunity will suit
- This role is reserved for blind and partially sighted applicants
Minimum age
- You must be at least 18 years old to apply
What skills and experience are needed?
- You’ll ideally have 1. Interest in group or community work. 2. An outgoing friendly approach to meeting new people 3. Lived experience in playing, spectating, or delivering sport or physical activity sessions as a blind or partially sighted person. 4. Lived experience of issues affecting blind and partially sighted people in relation to sports and physical activity.
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Home-Start believes that the earliest years make the biggest impact. Our work is with families who have (at least) one child under five and that are facing challenges such as loneliness, postnatal depression, or multiple births. We train volunteers to visit the family once a week, supporting them in a variety of emotional and practical ways. This is for 2 to 3 hours a week, one day per week.
By visiting a family in their own home, our volunteers represent a lifeline to families who are struggling to cope. They offer non-judgemental, confidential support in a way that is tailored to the needs of that individual family. By doing this, our volunteers support them to grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children, and forge links within their local community.
Our approach works because our volunteers have parenting experience or experience with children, and they understand the stresses and strains of life. They are there to listen; not to judge.
To volunteer with Home-Start, we ask that you are a good listener, have an interest in supporting families, and are able to volunteer in the daytime for a minimum of 6 months. You should have experience with children/families, a desire to help and support others and have a 'can-do' attitude.
You might not think it, but your lived experience, your unique background, and the languages you speak, could hugely benefit the families we support. You can work alongside them to help them regain their confidence and resilience. In doing so, you can directly increase the chance of local children growing up happier and healthier.
Full training is provided (25- hour course) and an enhanced DBS check will be required.
Languages particularly needed: Albanian, Arabic, Syrian Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Bengali, Pashto, British Sign Language.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Join our amazing volunteer team to raise awareness of the issues affecting blind and partially sighted people in relation to sport. You will give talks in person or virtually, sharing your own story to improve understanding of sight loss to sports clubs, sporting venues and facilities and community groups. You’ll be making a real difference to people living with sight loss by helping to improve accessibility and inclusivity, creating a sporting world without barriers.
What you’ll be doing
1. Talks to sports and physical activity providers to support and encourage them to consider the needs of blind and partially sighted people by sharing your story to audiences, for example, local leisure centres, sporting venues and sports clubs.
2. Delivering talks to raise awareness of existing sporting and physical activity opportunities for blind and partially sighted people.
3. Representing RNIB as an Ambassador for the Community Connection service.
What you’ll gain from the role
1. A chance to give something back in an area you are passionate about.
2. A chance to make a difference with a sense of achievement.
3. A chance to build a strong community of sports people with sight loss.
4. A chance to be part of a team of like-minded people, increasing your confidence and skills to talk to groups of people with impact, with an opportunity to develop your role into delivering independently over time.
5. Opportunity to explore different roles within our organisation including our internal recruitment vacancies
In return for donating your time we will support you with:
1. A rewarding role
2. A great Induction and Training, in particular training in public speaking and story telling will be given.
3. A supportive Manager
4. Regular catch-ups
5. Expenses
6. An opportunity to connect with other volunteers
How often will I be needed?
- 4 Hours per Month
Key requirements
- This role requires 1 reference.
Location
Region
- Scotland
Who this opportunity will suit
- This role is reserved for blind and partially sighted applicants
Minimum age
- You must be at least 18 years old to apply
What skills and experience are needed?
- You’ll ideally have 1. Lived experience in playing, spectating, or delivering sport or physical activity sessions as a blind or partially sighted person. 2. Lived experience of issues affecting blind and partially sighted people in relation to sports and physical activity. 3. Be comfortable speaking to different audiences to share your sporting story, or a willingness to try with our support. 4. Have effective communication skills. 5. An outgoing friendly approach to meeting new people
Connection Support has a range of services providing support to people at risk of homelessness or on the edge of needing social care. We work with people made vulnerable through debt, mental health issues, substance misuse, learning disability, and physical disabilities.
Volunteers play a key role in the provision of vital services to our clients.
Could you prevent loneliness and isolation in your community and become a befriender?
- Do you have 2-3 hours a week to give to a client suffering from loneliness or mental health? (For a mutual agreement of time and locations that meet clients’ needs)
- Can you offer support, through a listening ear and be a positive influence in a client’s life to help build self-esteem and confidence?
- Will you enable our clients to benefit from knowing someone is there to listen, be a friend, and check in on their wellbeing?
If you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, then we would love to hear from you!
Key responsibilities
Your role will include, but is not restricted to the following tasks:
- Carry out weekly checks with the clients you are supporting. This can be in a variety of settings, e.g., family home, support home, or in the community (via face-to-face meetings, phone or video calls)
- Have fun, take clients on outings, and maybe share a hobby, sport, or an interest
- Collect prescriptions for clients and assist with their weekly shop
- Help clients rediscover social skills and confidence by building up and maintaining a close relationship
- Report any concerns to the Volunteer Coordinator
Skills required
No qualifications or volunteering experience is required; however, the below skills are essential:
- A non-judgemental approach
- Good listening and communication skills
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Respect confidentiality
- Be able to work on own initiative
- Ability to build effective working relationships with clients in a non-patronising way
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The Dementia Wellbeing Service provides practical and emotional support to help older people live independently and safely at home for as long as possible, stay socially engaged, and carry on doing what they love. The service supports Camden residents over the age of 55 in the early or moderate stages of dementia. The coordinator works with the client, their family, or carers to produce a personalised wellbeing plan.
Staff and volunteers for this service are located at our Henderson Court Hub in Hampstead.
What does the role involve?
Volunteers assist the Dementia Services Manager with all administrative aspects of delivering the services including communicating with people referred to the service.
What will you get out of it?
- You'll be making a difference to the lives of older people.
- You'll gain knowledge and insight into issues that impact on older people’s lives.
- You'll have an opportunity to build confidence and skills in engaging with people.
- You'll gain administrative experience such as updating databases, dealing with correspondence and dealing with enquiries.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Join our amazing volunteer team to raise awareness of sight loss and RNIB services at local events. You will give talks in person or virtually, sharing your own story to improve understanding of sight loss to local service providers and community groups. You’ll be making a real difference to people living with sight loss by helping to improve accessibility and inclusivity, creating a world without barriers.
What you’ll be doing:
• Giving talks to groups of people to raise awareness of sight loss in your local community by sharing your story to audiences, for example, local businesses, community and voluntary groups.
• Delivering talks to raise awareness of RNIB services as a trusted source of support for blind and partially sighted people
• Representing RNIB as an Ambassador for the Community Connection service
What you’ll gain from the role:
• An opportunity to give something back.
• A chance to build a strong community.
• A sense of achievement through the difference you make.
• A chance to be part of a team of like-minded people
• An opportunity to develop and explore different roles with RNIB, including our internal job vacancies.
In return for donating your time we will provide:
• A supportive route to building your confidence in presenting and sharing your story with an audience.
• A rewarding experience.
• A great Induction and training.
• A supportive manager.
• Regular updates and catchups.
• Expenses.
• An opportunity to connect with other volunteers.
Connection Support has a range of services providing support to people at risk of homelessness or on the edge of needing social care. We work with people made vulnerable through debt, mental health issues, substance misuse, learning disability, and physical disabilities.
Volunteers play a key role in the provision of vital services to our clients.
Could you prevent loneliness and isolation in your community and become a befriender?
- Do you have 2-3 hours a week to give to a client suffering from loneliness or mental health? (For a mutual agreement of time and locations that meet clients’ needs)
- Can you offer support, through a listening ear and be a positive influence in a client’s life to help build self-esteem and confidence?
- Will you enable our clients to benefit from knowing someone is there to listen, be a friend, and check in on their wellbeing?
If you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, then we would love to hear from you!
Key responsibilities
Your role will include, but is not restricted to the following tasks:
- Carry out weekly checks with the clients you are supporting. This can be in a variety of settings, e.g., family home, support home, or in the community (via face-to-face meetings, phone or video calls)
- Have fun, take clients on outings, and maybe share a hobby, sport, or an interest
- Collect prescriptions for clients and assist with their weekly shop
- Help clients rediscover social skills and confidence by building up and maintaining a close relationship
- Report any concerns to the Volunteer Coordinator
Skills required
No qualifications or volunteering experience is required; however, the below skills are essential:
- A non-judgemental approach
- Good listening and communication skills
- Reliable and trustworthy
- Respect confidentiality
- Be able to work on own initiative
- Ability to build effective working relationships with clients in a non-patronising way
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Many older people in Camden experience social isolation and loneliness. Our Telefriend Volunteers offer older people companionship and company over the phone.
What you will get out of it?
- You will be making a difference to the lives of older people.
- You will gain an insight into the issues that impact on the older people’s lives.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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St John Ambulance are looking for new Youth Leaders in North Yorkshire to help continue our efforts in teaching First Aid to young people across the region.
Youth Team Volunteers teach young people, of all different backgrounds, vital and life-changing first aid skills. We have two programmes – our Badgers (aged 5 – 10 years old) and our Cadets (aged 10 – 17 years old).
We are currently on the lookout for both Youth Helpers and Youth Leaders. By volunteering a minimum three hours per week you could make a massive difference to these cadets now and have a real impact on your community.
But it's not all about what you'll give - you will learn a lot too!
You’ll gain communication, listening and presentation skills and grow in confidence.
You’ll also have the chance to learn First Aid, Mental Health First Aid, Adventure skills and take on more advanced leadership roles with training, all while being fully supported by the rest of your team.
Under your watch, cadets will develop their potential, they will learn vital first aid skills that they can deliver at events and activities across North Yorkshire and Teesside. They will gain confidence, make friends, and engage in community and social change.
If you’d like to know more or would like to try a taster experience of what it’s like as a volunteer in our Youth Teams or would like to chat to someone who does, please get in touch.
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About Home-Start Barnet, Brent & Harrow
Home-Start helps families with young children through their challenging times. We support families in the boroughs of Barnet, Brent and Harrow who are facing issues such as loneliness, isolation, financial difficulties, anxiety, post-natal depression, ill health, multiple births or disabilities. We help them grow in confidence, strengthen their relationships with their children and forge links with the local community.
About the Role:
We are seeking a new Chair to join our Board. As our Chair, you will be passionate about our mission, and will have the drive and motivation to lead the Trustee Board to achieving our goals. We expect that you will have some experience of senior leadership and the ability to offer strategic support and direction to the charity.
Desirable Knowledge and Skills:
- Charity Governance and Compliance
- Strong leadership and decision-making abilities
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders
- Experience in the nonprofit sector in a paid or voluntary capacity
- Understanding of the challenges faced by families in the community
We are very committed to developing a diverse board that is representative of the local families we work with and understand the complex challenges many of them face. This might include lived experience of parenting challenges, migration, being from a minoritised racial community, life on a low income, being LGBTQ+, neurodivergent or having a disability. We also welcome applications from those with experience of our work, as a supporter, a family or volunteer.
Previous experience of being a trustee is welcome but not necessary – we can provide a thorough induction and support for those wishing to gain their first trustee role.
If you have questions about the role and would like to have an informal conversation, please contact us and we would be happy to arrange a call.
To apply, provide your CV and a Supporting Statement (no more than one A4 page) that sets out why you are interested in this role and highlights the experiences and qualities you believe make you suitable.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The Structured Intervention Support (SIS) service offers support for people with high and complex needs.
You will be assisting service users who experience mental distress in one-to-one settings:
- help to resettle in the community on discharge from hospital
- help to develop strategies to improve their quality of life and reduce their dependence on statutory services
- provide personalised key work support to enable people with complex mental health needs progress and maintain independent living.
We are looking for volunteers who can support people with activities for a minimum of 1 day per week. Activities such as:
- Escorting people to appointments/outings/activities or events
- Organisational and administrative tasks – help with budgeting; understanding/applying for welfare benefits; letter writing and form filling; arranging activities/appointments; planning the use of other services such as shopping
- Supporting people to maintain their homes – reporting/organising repairs; organising a move; signposting and referring to services and activities
- Ad-hoc support
We ask for a commitment of at least 1 day a week 9:30 – 5:00 for a full year (+ about 2-3 months for DBS check and induction), though there are plenty of opportunities to volunteer more than one day a week.
Staff benefits include volunteers receiving 3 days of training and a fortnightly group supervision.
What you will gain from this role:
- On the job training and supervision
- Support with professional development
- Work references provided after completion of one year volunteering
- Travel expenses reimbursed (within London)
Download an application form from our website and email it to us along with your CV.
This role is advertised as part of TPP's Free Giving Back Services. This volunteer advertisement copy has been supplied to TPP and applicants apply direct to the organisation. Please contact the organisation directly if you have any questions about this volunteer role.