Community Champion Volunteer

Stonehouse, Gloucestershire

Position Available Community Champion

Location Within your own community

Details of Position As a Community Champion, you will be representing Hope for Tomorrow through a range of activities within your local community. These activities could comprise of attending local events on our behalf or creating your own fundraising event for others. You may also set up
your own group of volunteers once you have had volunteer training.

Description of our Organisation

One in two people will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime.

We have made it our mission to make a difference in the way that their treatment is delivered; giving the gift of time back to patients so they can spend it however they choose. Our mobile cancer care units help patients to fit their treatment into their lives, not the other way around.

We bring our fleet of mobile cancer care units into the heart of communities, and by working closely with NHS Trusts throughout the country, we work together to help as many people as possible.

Once on board one of our mobile cancer units, people receive the same exceptional care as they would in a hospital. The big difference that our
patients comment on is that there are a lot more smiles and it’s a more
relaxing, homely environment. In fact, because of the less clinical, stressfree environment on board, the specialist nurses on board say that many patients can tolerate their treatments better. Our units are easily accessible, they are stationed in convenient, large spaces like those in a supermarket or community hospital car parks where parking is often free.

Our mobile cancer care units are comprised of four treatment chairs and
specialist-trained nurses administer the same medications that the
patient would receive inside the hospital.

Our mobile cancer care units combine the friendliness and comfort that patients want but with the
standard of treatment, they deserve and require.

Minimum age for volunteers - 18

Is training provided? - Yes, specific training relating to your role will be given.

Is a DBS required? - Yes

Are expenses provided? - No

What does the role involve?

• Meeting and talking to new people, groups and businesses and public speaking
• Accepting cheques on our behalf and banking them
• Distributing posters/information
• Identifying, placing and emptying collection tubs, counting the funds and banking them
• Identifying new locations for our clothes banks
• Manning stands at community events in aid of Hope for Tomorrow and selling merchandise etc

What skills or experience are required?

• Energetic and proactive personality
• Willingness to talk to people about Hope for Tomorrow
• Good communication and organisational skills
• Team working when working with a local fundraising group or others

What will I get out of it?

• Support us to keep the wheels turning on our mobile cancer care units to allow patients to be treated closer to home
• An opportunity to build experience for your CV
• An opportunity to meet local people in your area and build new, lasting relationships
• The knowledge that you have helped others at a time when they need support.

What support or training will I get?

• Briefing on Hope for Tomorrow, what we do and how we do it
• Regular and ongoing support from a designated volunteer coordinator
• On-going support and guidance throughout your time as a volunteer

We are open to developing the skills of our volunteers, so if there is a specific skill you’d like to learn or grow, please inform your designated volunteer coordinator.

To apply please send your CV by clicking on Apply Now. 

Salary: Unpaid

To Apply simply click the 'Apply Now' button below and complete the online form including attaching an up-to-date CV.