Mental Health Support Volunteer
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Who we are:
Moodswings is a registered set up in 1999 to support people with mental health problems and their friends and family. All our services are free of charge to anyone who needs us and much of the work is done by volunteers.
Although we specialise in working with people with mood disorders, we provide support to people with any form of emotional distress. Our work centres around recovery, meaning ‘living the best life you can with, or without, the symptoms of emotional distress’. We aim to help people improve their understanding of their symptoms, train them to manage them and thereafter achieve things they want in life regardless of their diagnosis.
What are we looking for?
We are keen to recruit volunteers from a wide range of backgrounds, including people with personal experience of mental health problems and recovery. To work effectively with our small, friendly team, you will need to be flexible, caring, reliable and have good listening skills.
What would you be doing as a volunteer?
Volunteers are needed to help us:
- Promote the service and
- After training, deal with calls to the help-line
Other opportunities include:
- Shadowing appointments
- Assisting with activity groups and workshops
- Providing clerical support and carrying out reception duties.
People generally volunteer for one weekday each week between 10am and 4 pm. Local travel allowance is reimbursed. In the mental health sector, each day can vary so we ask volunteers to be mindful of this and to be flexible with tasks that they may be asked to do
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