Community Link volunteer - role description

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Community Link Volunteer

Ladywell Unit and Westways Resource Centre

Type of activity:

• Befriending, travel, activities and sourcing information

Areas of interest:

• Mental Health, group work, community work and support work

Description

• To support service users to identify what they would like to access in the community and support with visiting new services
• To travel with service users to local amenities and centres
• To have a good local knowledge of community resources
• To help reduce social isolation and to increase peoples’ confidence and self esteem
• Ability to form a positive, supportive and boundaried relationship with service users

Skills and qualifications

• Good Communication/ Listening Skills
• Understanding of mental health issues and/ or lived experience
• Good local knowledge of community resources
• Friendly
• Trustworthy
• Confident

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