Activity Volunteers – Beacon View, Skelmersdale
Do you have a few hours available each week to commit to supporting activities at Beacon View?
They have scheduled activities and require Volunteers to help engage their service users and residents to take part, activities include:
- Befriending – take time with the service users offering sensitive listening skills and good communication.
- Arts & Crafts – if you are good at arts & crafts and able to inspire others with easy projects that would be an advantage.
- Games – if you enjoy playing games and encouraging others to do so in small groups
- Gardening – days / times flexible, garden and DIY skills required, helping maintain the garden area and helping support gardening projects.
Please contact Beacon View and speak to a member of staff before you apply to ensure the role is suitable for you.
This volunteering role is subject to a DBS check. To qualify you must have been a resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
- Applicants must be willing to go through an induction process with relevant background checks and an enhanced DBS check (This will be done free of charge)
- Once you have applied online one of our Volunteer Officers will be in contact to arrange your DBS
Tasks:
Tasks
- Encourage and spend some time chatting to residents helping to combat their feelings of loneliness by encouraging them to participate in the session.
- You will actively support, encourage, and empower the service user to achieve specified and agreed goals and objectives
- Help to brighten up the service user’s day
- Log your volunteering hours monthly on-line
- Complete training relevant to the role
Required Qualities:
- Be a good communicator
- Be committed to providing a good reliable service
- Be patient & be empathetic
- Have knowledge of Older People’s needs
- Awareness of Dementia issues would be an advantage
- Passionate about making older people feel good about themselves
- Adhere to confidentiality Guidelines
- Be friendly and have an approachable manner
Training:
Training will be provided where necessary and may be in the form of peer support, distance learning or trainer led.
Volunteers must have completed the required training before any activity can be undertaken and may be asked to regularly refresh training where required.
Required Age:
16 years +Schedule:
Beacon View, Kiln Lane, Skelmersdale
Apply for this role
If you are interested in this opportunity please contact the Volunteer Co-ordinator for a chat, or click apply now.
Email: Lancashire Volunteer Partnership
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