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Support Session Volunteer

Voiceability Advocacy

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Support Session Volunteers help our clients with general advocacy issues who are not eligible for Statutory Advocacy. The help us to reduce waitlists and support more individuals by

• Helping clients understand about advocacy
• Supporting clients with general issues they cannot resolve on their own
• Keeping detailed notes and records of interactions with clients and visits
• Logging work on the case management system
• Doing research and making contacts with other services
• referring clients to our paid advocacy service if necessary
• signposting clients to other services
• promoting our services and organisation
• delivering general advocacy cases

Advice, Information & Support,Support Work,General & Helping

Basic IT skills - internet & email, Organising & Planning

We are looking for individuals with the following key skills and attributes • Good communication skills – written and verbal • Empathy and patience when dealing with clients • A knowledge of or interest in advocacy • A basic level of IT literacy – email, docs • Accuracy and attention to detail • Ability to manage own time and prioritise workload • Ability to work independently & as part of a team • A commitment to the aims and ethos of VoiceAbility

• Support of allocated paid advocate and other staff • Training in the role and other learning opportunities • the opportunity to make a positive difference to people with care and support needs. • the opportunity to learn new skills, meet new people and gain experience in your chosen volunteering role/s • the opportunity to help us develop our volunteering work • Regular support and KIT (Keeping in touch) meetings • a reference if you complete over six months of Volunteering • reimbursement of expenses and travel costs in line with VoiceAbility policy

3 hours a week

Further location details may be provided below.

Amy McAfee

Home-based delivered remotely to clients across Central Bedfordshire

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18 and over

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 We welcome and/or have the resources to support:

Our opportunities are open to anyone, we do encourage those with real-life experience to apply as they have first hand knowledge of many of the issues are clients may be struggling with.

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The role is done remotely, where a face to face visit is required the necessary steps are taken in line with our Covid Policy.

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