Cruse Bereavement Volunteers required
Cruse Bereavement Volunteers required
Posted for Cruse Bereavement Support
Posted by Mid Sussex Voluntary Action
You will be redirected to the Mid Sussex Voluntary Action website to express your interest.
If you are passionate about supporting bereaved people, we’d love to hear from you. We provide support to thousands of bereaved people every year. For many this will be the first time they have asked for help with their grief. Volunteers have always and remain at the very heart of Cruse, supporting thousands of bereavedpeople every year and playing an incredible role enriching so many aspects of our organisation.
As a Bereavement Volunteer, you will join a volunteer community who provide emotional support, tobereaved people. You must be able to offer a person centred, empathetic and non-judgemental approach to supporting our clients. Most of the support we provide is over the telephone or on zoom.
Our training spaces are in high demand, and we do ask that you are able to meet our expectations and are committed to supporting our clients as soon as you are able to.
Training opportunities vary throughout the year, but we are especially keen to hear from applicants who can support in your area where we currently have opportunities available:
Please go to www.cruse.org.uk for further information and details on how to apply.</
What skills do I need?
Skills and experience:
• Empathetic and Warm
• Excellent listening skills
• Personal resilience
• Punctual and reliable
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Excellent communication skills across a diverse range of clients
Time commitment:
• Attend training delivered over 6 weeks (1 day a week) via zoom
• Support 2 clients a week
• Volunteer for a minimum of 2 years
• Attend monthly group supervision (2 hours) via zoom
• Support service users between 9am – 8pm Monday to Friday and 10am – 2pm Saturday, no
support provided on Sundays or Bank Holidays
Location
This opportunity has no specific location e.g. can be carried out anywhere.
Details
- Age restrictions
- DBS check required
- Equal Opportunities Policy
- Expenses reimbursed
- Health and Safety Policy
- Ongoing support
- Public Liability Insurance
- Safeguarding Policy
- Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Policy
- Training provided
- Volunteer induction
- Volunteer Policy
- Volunteers covered by insurance
- Written role description
When is this role available?
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Volunteers are required at a variety of different times and we work with the volunteers availability for bereavement support sessions
You will be redirected to the Mid Sussex Voluntary Action website to express your interest.
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