Volunteer Social café support

Job overview

Volunteers need to support our brand new social cafe in Ashton-under -Lyne

This a brand new volunteering role supporting our first ever social café within our older people’s mental health services. If you are friendly, chatty and want to help please apply for this role

Whether you want to gain experience, improve your job prospects, or just want to give some of your time to help others, volunteering could be for you!

Main duties of the job

What the role involves:

• Help create a welcoming, warm and friendly social cafe
• Support patients to engage with the cafe
• Promote the benefits in engaging with social and therapeutic activities
• Help to run activities within the cafe
• Help set up and clear away the café area,
• Help prepare and serve refreshments to patients, carers, visitors and staff
• Encourage conversations between those attending the cafe

DBS Level for this role is:  Standard

The knowledge, skills and attributes required for the role:

• Friendly and approachable
• Great communication skills
• An empathetic and caring nature
• Good organisation skills
• Punctuality and reliability
• Experience/knowledge/interest in mental health.
• Have an interesting hobby eg. Knitting, music, quizzing

What we hope you gain from the role

• Our thanks and appreciation
• New skills and knowledge
• Satisfaction from helping others