Volunteer Table Tennis Class Facilitator
The Mulberry Centre
To facilitate fortnightly table tennis classes from December for a group of our clients, making them fun, enjoyable, sociable and inclusive.
Time commitment: Regular weekly slot on Thursday afternoons 2.30pm – 4pm comprising of two back to back classes – beginners and more experienced - total 90 mins, at our Centre. Main Duties • To facilitate fortnightly table tennis classes for a group of our clients, making them fun, enjoyable, sociable and inclusive. • To manage the class so that all participants are respectful of health and safety requirements, the equipment and each other. • Each class teacher needs to be able to adapt the class to the needs of the individual, depending on the clients’ abilities and their condition, as far as is reasonable.
Sport & Coaching
Managing People, People Skills
We are committed to providing the highest quality of care and wellbeing class facilitators are expected to: Be a member of their professional body. Have personal, professional indemnity insurance. Have been qualified in their practice and actively practising for one year. Have an awareness of health and safety issues in relation to their class activity. Have the ability to make the class fun, enjoyable, sociable and inclusive. Must not have had personal experience of cancer (either themselves or a close family member) or have been bereaved within the preceding two years
• Class teachers must provide an observed class and attend an induction with the Complementary Therapies Lead prior to starting volunteering. • Class teachers are asked to attend meetings and support groups with other members of the therapy team. • Class teachers will have an initial three-month review with their Lead and then annually or as required thereafter. This is a way of monitoring and supporting each other and is informal and confidential. • Networking amongst the therapy team is encouraged, for support. • Public transport expenses are paid or mileage up to a limit of 30 miles per day, currently at 45p per mile. Parking is limited and cannot be guaranteed.
Regular fortnightly slot on Thursday afternoons 2.30pm – 4pm comprising of two back to back classes – beginners and more experienced - total 90 mins, at our Centre. Minimum commitment for 6 months.
TW7 6AF
West Middlesex University Hospital Twickenham Road
Any bus to west Middlesex University Hospital
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