Helping Volunteer
The Listening Place
The Listening Place is a London based suicide prevention charity. Helping volunteers provide support to the shift, greet visitors and undertake a variety of admin and other tasks.
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. Helping Volunteers are 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. We are looking for volunteers who have the empathy to greet distressed visitors, the willingness to undertake a variety of admin and other tasks and the resilience to support their team. Our HVs need to be proactive, self-starters and team players with a basic understanding of IT. We ask for a weekly commitment of four hours for a period of at least six months. We are primarily recruiting Helping Volunteers for our Hammersmith site.
Administration,Advice, Information & Support,Support Work
Admin, Basic IT skills - internet & email, People Skills
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.
W6 7NJ
Unit 1, Cambridge Court, 210 Shepherd’s Bush Road
We are a 5 minute walk from Hammersmith Station.
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