Sandy Bear are urgently looking for volunteers in the Torfaen and Monmouthshire area to support children and young people in our family support groups and at home visits. Volunteering alongside our Service Delivery Team, you will be using a variety of activities that generate discussions around the child or young person’s bereavement or anticipatory grief.
Visits often happen in a place the young person feels comfortable, and that could be in school or at home. Volunteers also help with family support groups that run several times a year. Each block usually has 5 sessions, although the sessions are sometimes condensed over a shorter time period.
As a Sandy Bear Family Support volunteer, you will receive bespoke training and have ongoing support from our Service Delivery Team. Volunteering for Sandy Bear makes a huge difference to the life of a child or young person who has been affected by bereavement.
The role will include
· Talking to children/young people and their adults.
· Supporting the Service Delivery Team with activities
· Supporting the children and young people with the activities
· Supporting the adult carer (children’s groups only)
· Helping to set up the craft activities
What do I need for the role?
· Enjoy talking to people
· Empathy
· Good listening skills
· Happy to work as part of a team of Sandy Bear volunteers and Service Delivery Team.
Why Volunteer for this role?
You will have the opportunity to help children and young people in your local community. Volunteering with the charity gives you transferable skills that can be taken into the workplace. By supporting Sandy Bear at family support sessions, volunteers make a huge contribution to enabling the charity to work with many more children, young people and families when they most need us.
Please email [email protected] for more information.