Helping Volunteer
The Listening Place
The Listening Place is a volunteer-led charity aiming to transform how we support people who feel suicidal. 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 on the shift. We ask for a weekly commitment of four hours for a period of at least six months.
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 on the shift. We are primarily recruiting Helping Volunteers for our new site near Liverpool Street. We also have limited vacancies available at our other sites in Hammersmith, Pimlico and Kings Cross.
Administration,Support Work,General & Helping
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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 Helping Volunteers need to be proactive, self-starters and team players with a basic understanding of IT.
Volunteering at The Listening Place can be incredibly rewarding – you will be supporting people who feel life is no longer worth living. Full training is provided and on-going training and support is available.
We ask for a weekly commitment of four hours for a period of at least six months. We are open from Monday to Sunday from 9am to 9pm. Volunteers work 4-hour shifts, either 9am-1pm, 1pm-5pm, or 5pm-9pm.
E1 7LB
1-3 Cobb Street, London
We are a 5-minute walk from Liverpool Street Station.
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