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Thursday Project Volunteer - Open Mental Health
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Summary
Our Thursday Project Volunteers will be instrumental in ensuring the smooth running of our Thursday Project at Chard Rugby Club.Detailed description
Alongside other staff, you will be involved with the many different and varied activities needed for our Project to run smoothly. Some of the tasks you could help with are:
· Learning about peer support
· Engaging with members
· Potential to be involved in outside trips and activities
· Reception desk – registering members and visitors, taking monies, helping with teas and coffees.
· Setting up and clearing away the room
· Setting up activities’ tables e.g., art
· Helping in the kitchen
· Tea and talk time
· Hygiene and sanitisation
· Giving relevant resources out
The best person for this role will be warm and friendly, who is good at being organised and can link well with our members with compassion, patience and empathy. You’ll be good at negotiating with a range of different people. A willingness to get involved and reliable. You may have lived experience of mental health and recovery and be able to share experience to support, empower and bring hope to others. This is valued in Watch.
It would also be great if you had good knowledge of person-centred practice and perhaps experience of Health and Safety Risk Assessment and practice.
Our project is a lovely setting to work in as our members encourage a warm and welcoming place to be, you’ll be warmly welcomed into this. We also recognise that training and development are very important and we offer a range of on-going training opportunities and emotional and professional support to all our volunteers.