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St Mungo's
Our mission is to house, support and care for vulnerable people in London who either have been, or at risk of sleeping rough and homelessness. Our aim is to make sure that homeless and vulnerable people can look forward with optimism and can contribute to the quality of life.
Description

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.

Duties

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.
Who will the volunteers be working with?
Alongside other members of the volunteering team.
Training
Training will be widely available. We have a dedicated team to support you in your volunteer journey with us.

Time commitment

Camden- Between Monday- Friday, the team can be flexible but ideally 2 days per week, 10am-3pm.
Application deadline

This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.