Helping Volunteer
The Listening Place
Helping Volunteers perform a variety of admin tasks with a cheerful and helpful attitude, i.e. booking new appointments on our database, setting up rooms for appointments, checking voicemails, drafting emails and supporting the shift as necessary. They're a friendly face at reception, i.e. meeting and greeting our visitors, offering support if they become distressed, and offering refreshments.
The Listening Place is a volunteer-led charity aiming to transform how we support people who feel suicidal. Our trained volunteers are part of a team delivering face-to-face, confidential, ongoing support to thousands of people each year. They help create the warm and welcoming environment that encourages people struggling with suicidal thoughts and feelings to talk openly without being judged or given advice. We are currently seeking people to join our team as Helping Volunteers. Helping Volunteers are a vital part of shifts here at The Listening Place; in this role, you will be responsible for welcoming visitors onto our premises, providing a warm and welcoming atmosphere (along with a cup of tea), and supporting our Listening Volunteers to help everything run smoothly.
Administration
Admin, Basic IT skills - internet & email
It is important that you are proactive, reliable, a self-starter and a team player. A basic understanding of IT is also required. We will provide training of our systems. No formal qualifications are necessary for the role.
Helping Volunteers can find a sense of purpose and fulfilment as a result of the difference they're making to our suicidal visitors. The Listening Place is a welcoming and vibrant community of volunteers, where our volunteers can make new friends.
We ask for a weekly commitment of four hours for a period of at least six months.
E1 7LB
We are primarily recruiting Helping Volunteers for our new site near Liverpool Street. The full address is: 1-3 Cobb Street, London, E1 7LB We also have limited vacancies available at our other sites in Hammersmith, Pimlico and Kings Cross.
A 5 minutes' walk from Liverpool Street station.
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