Carers Champion Volunteer
St Christopher's Hospice
By volunteering as a Carers Champion, you can help ensure carers receive support, encouragement and connection they need during challenging times.
If you have experience caring for a loved one, your understanding can make a real difference to another carer. As a Carers Champion, you'll use your lived experience to provide peer support, helping carers feel heard, understood and less alone. Across the UK, millions of people provide unpaid care for family members and friends, often while balancing work, family responsibilities and their own wellbeing. Many experience stress, isolation and exhaustion, and can find it difficult to access support. By volunteering as a Carers Champion, you can help ensure carers receive support, encouragement and connection they need during challenging times.
Advice, information & support,Befriending, buddying and mentoring
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People who: • Have experience of unpaid caring for a loved one (e.g. due to sickness, disability or an injury) – including care provided, even if you did not consider yourself an unpaid carer at the time. • Are empathic and non-judgemental listener • Able to build a friendly rapport with new people quickly • Respects diversity and others’ opinions • Emotionally resilient in the face of difficult circumstances that people may have at the end of life • Can connect and empathise with people with different life experiences • Able to follow our policies and procedures to everyone safe • Able to represent St Christopher’s and our values positively
Opportunity to build supportive and impactful short-term relationships • The chance to draw on your lived experience to support someone at a pivotal time in their caring journey • The development of your active listening and communication skills • Insight into other experiences of caring • Being part of an enthusiastic team, meeting new people and getting more involved in your local community • Knowing you are helping dying people in your local community to have access to care and support, as and when they need it • Learning about St Christopher’s and the support we offer • Enhancing your CV if that is important to you.
Flexible around your availability and that of the unpaid carer but usually an hour a week
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Home based providing support by phone
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