Group Facilitator Volunteer

2 weeks ago


South Shields, United Kingdom Humankind Charity Full time

**Vacancy No**
- VN4128

**Employment Type**
- Volunteer

**Hours Per Week**
- 8.00

**Work Pattern**
- Monday to Friday

**Location**
- Cookson House - South Shields NE33 1TL

**Location Region**
- North East

**Location City**
- South Shields

**Location Postal Code**
- NE33 1TL

**Interview Date**
- 05 Jun 2024

**Job Details**

**Brief description of project**
South Tyneside Adult Recovery Service, over 18s supporting people with substance and/or alcohol misuse.
- This exciting volunteer role would suit someone with an empathetic, non-judgmental attitude who can build strong working relationships with others.
- We ask that you are able to commit to a half a day or full day for a minimum of 6 months.
- **Details of the role / tasks**
The volunteer will be supporting both structured and drop-in groups, sessions run Monday-Friday (usually 10-11:30am, 1-2:30pm). We are looking for a volunteer to support with pre and post meetings around the sessions.
- Structured groups run in batches of 6-8 weeks so volunteer will need to be consistently involved in all of the sessions in that cohort.
- **Tasks will include**:

- To help recruit people into the session, give an overview of the group
- Share a group agreement at the start of each session, including respect and confidentiality
- Reporting any concerns, including safeguarding that may arise in the group.
- Work closely with the group worker to plan and evaluate sessions
- Support service users to develop their own skills and interests
- Potential to take the lead on facilitating groups
- Potential to develop new groups and shape the way these are offered to people accessing the service

**Personal qualities**
- Skills we would like you to bring:

- Strong rapport building skills
- Good knowledge of boundaries
- Keen and enthusiastic
- Confident at engaging group discussions
- Assertive manner to challenge inappropriate behaviour
- Organised
- Professional
- Good computer skills an
- Honest and committed
- Good time keeping
- Able to work as part of a team, on own initiative and to instruction
- Non-judgmental towards people who have experienced substance misuse
- Clear understanding of importance of confidentiality
- Some experience of working with vulnerable adults

What Volunteers can expect from us:
- Regular supervision and support
- Induction and access to online and face to face training
- To learn and practice new skills within a teamwork setting
- To feel part of a team and the wider Humankind organisation
- Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed with proof of journey
- Opportunities to progress and experience other areas of Humankind's work in the region

**Who are we**
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.

We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report **here** to read more about the important work that we have done.

**What can Humankind offer you**
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses- ️
- Happy, Healthy You - our wellbeing offers for our workforce**Humankind is an equal opportunities employer**

**Salary Period**
- Per Annum

**Vacancy Salary Range**
- x

**DBS Requirement**
- Volunteer Basic

**Does role require Police/Prison vetting?**
- Not Applicable

**Driving licence required for role?**
- No

**Applications Close Date**
- 03 Jun 2024



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