Interested in counselling, youth work, social work, or mental health services?
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced volunteer to provide therapeutic workshops to children. This could be an ideal position for you if you have a few hours to spare during each week to make a real difference working with children impacted by mental health to help reach our 3 key differences of reducing social isolation, improving mental health and increasing ability to thrive in education.
This service sits within our ‘Glow’ projects that was created to provide children a safe space in which to discuss issues that they may be facing at school and work with their peers on a range of techniques using creative arts to improve mental health, reduce social isolation and increase their ability to thrive in education.

A BIT ABOUT US

We want to bring love to children and families’ services. We don’t think it’s enough to care a bit, you have to care a lot if you want to transform outcomes.
We want to change the national landscape of how children experience the mental health system, putting kindness at the forefront of every interaction. Building awareness, starting a movement, hearing the children’s voices and those of their loved ones: we want to transform the experience of those impacted by mental health.
We are on a mission to ensure that no child has to lose out on a world of potential because of mental health. We don’t have magic wands, but we do believe that every child and family has the right to get services designed and delivered for their individual needs, and with love and imagination. Everyone has a right to have their story remembered and treated with curiosity and sensitivity.
We directly deliver imaginative, and carefully case managed services for children and young people with social, emotional, and mental health needs. We believe that you can’t change outcomes without looking at issues holistically and thoughtfully. For us it’s about long-term change.

YOUR VOLUNTEER RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Initially supporting the children’s counsellor in delivering workshops and shadowing them to learn then how to deliver them alongside another volunteer and/or a member of staff from the school.
• Delivering our range of workshops to groups of up to 10 children at a time.
• Follow up admin e.g. logging session notes, liaising with our therapeutic children’s counsellor on the impact of the sessions.
• Representing the charity in the best light at all times whilst volunteering.
• A commitment to safeguarding best practice, following the safeguarding policy of each individual school and offering follow up support which might include escalating safeguarding concerns to the on-site safeguarding officer or contacting external organisations e.g. social care.
• A commitment to attend any relevant training and reflective practice sessions for role development e.g. all volunteers must attend internal safeguarding training at least once a year, alongside informal learning opportunities through other relevant training opportunities and supervision.
• Commitment to recording social impact information and gaining feedback from the young people and the school.

ROLE DETAILS

We require 2 hours per week during term time. This time includes set up and writing up any notes or passing any concerns on to the appropriate person. The workshops are only run during term time.