Volunteer Manager

3 weeks ago


Durham, United Kingdom Home Group Full time

Volunteer Manager
Mercury House, Durham (Hybrid Worker)
Fixed Term 10 Months, Part Time (22.5 hpw)
Salary circa £21,178 pa (pro rata), negotiable based on skills and experience, plus Great Benefits
**Empowering customers to live rewarding and happy lives. That’s when it hits home.**
We have a fabulous job opportunity for you to join our awesome (and growing) team. You’ll support Volunteers to access opportunities within Home Group through our open access ‘Happy Days’ groups, ‘out and about activities’ and ‘physical activity sessions’,allotment projects and walking groups which run throughout County Durham.
You’ll link in with our support coordinators and other support staff, working alongside our new befriending coordinator and help Rachel, our Client Services Manager, to drive and support the ambitions of the health and wellbeing patch.
Leading a team of Volunteers, you'll help us deliver efficient, high quality, cost effective and customer centred services. You’ll help empower our customers to live independently and make it a great place to work for our colleagues.
**About the role**
You’ll have overall responsibility for managing our Volunteer services and supporting volunteers to carry out befriending activities with your customers. You will also lead our ‘out and about’ activities such as physical activity sessions, allotment projectsand walking groups.
Many of our volunteers are former customers who offer peer support and befriending to other customers so really understand aspects of mental health. We also have many volunteers who have little or no experience of mental health but want to learn and make adifference within their communities. You’ll inspire, lead and nurture our volunteers to feel amazing about their roles and being able to give something back to society.
You’ll work with our partners to attract volunteers to help your customers to improve their mental health and wellbeing as well as helping them achieve independence
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