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VoiceAbility
- VO99023
Could you support unpaid carers or people with disabilities to access benefits? Could you help someone find local services? Could you help someone understand the information they have been given about their care and support? Could you support or lead a group of people on a topic of interest?
You could help improve the quality of someone’s life.
Voiceability provides advocacy support to help people have their voices heard in decisions about their health, care and wellbeing.
This role is ideal for social work students, those with an interest in the care sector or retired professionals.
Support Session Volunteers help their clients with general advocacy, supporting people with a variety of challenges. This helps Voiceability to reduce waitlists and support more individuals by:
- Helping clients understand about advocacy
- Supporting clients to self-advocate with our tool kits
- Signposting clients to other services where required
- Supporting the service to deliver "collective" advocacy sessions
- Light Touch Advocacy
- Supporting advocates with casework
- Promotion of services and the organisation
- Logging activity onto our systems
Experience required
Some key skills/qualities to have are:
· Good communication skills
· Empathy and patience when dealing with clients
· A knowledge of or interest in advocacy
· A basic level of IT literacy
· 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
Travel details
This role is based at your home and in your local community. Much of the volunteering will happen remotely, but the service is client-led so you must be able to travel round your local community if clients want to meet in person, or to attend networking events.
The service operates Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm so that’s when your volunteering takes place. You may be asked to help out at an occasional evening event, such as with group advocacy sessions, but this is only if it suits you.
Travel expenses
Travel expenses reimbursed.
Support
Training details
As a volunteer you’ll receive full training, support from the volunteer team and your local advocates, and paid expenses. Training is delivered remotely on Teams, and you will be given a VoiceAbility email account and mobile to be able to access the training. There are also online modules to complete and a whole catalogue of e-learning that you can access.
The training covers topics such as an introduction to advocacy, safeguarding, an introduction to Social Security Scotland and the benefits and more.
Restrictions
Minimum age: 18
volunteers have to be suitably background checked and need to be able to travel around their local area by themselves
Availability
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Frequency & commitment
3 hours a week, 6 month commitment.
Volunteers (aged 18-25) taking part in this opportunity are eligible to claim Saltire Awards hours for their activity.
Find out more
Please fill out this form to register your interest in the opportunity Support Session Volunteer (Fife) with VoiceAbility
Your message will be sent to the organisation that supports volunteering in Fife:
Contact name: Nicci McDougall
Email address: nicci@fva.org
Phone: 01333 433 660
Thank you for registering your interest in Support Session Volunteer (Fife) with VoiceAbility.
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Something has gone wrong, please let us know about this issue at milosupport@scvo.scot quoting reference #VO99023.