It’s fantastic that you’d like to find out more about volunteering at St Mungo’s. As an Involvement and Engagement Volunteer, you will be ensuring our clients are actively and meaningfully involved in their local service. Involving clients not only makes our services better and more sustainable but also helps the individuals develop new skills and gain confidence. You will need to be able to build good relationship and rapport with clients, feel confident leading group activities with support from staff, and to motivate and encourage client engagement and involvement with activities or feedback sessions.
In this role, you will be supporting us with all or some of the following tasks:
- Engaging with clients and getting their feedback on how to improve the service.
- Building rapport and relationships with clients and finding out more about their skills and interests
- Planning and facilitating activities based on client feedback e.g. gardening, barbecues etc
- Encouraging and supporting clients to participate in activities
- Evaluating these activities and presenting findings to both staff and clients
- Attending resident/client meetings
- Empowering clients to get further involved with the local community or other involvement opportunities offered within St. Mungo’s
- Adhering to St Mungo’s Policies and Procedures at all times.