Volunteers are crucial to the work of our charity. There are many ways in which you can help us with your time and effort. Each Volunteer is a special person who brings a variety of skills that enhance the services and support that we offer to our clients, their families and carers. 

 

We often have availability for new volunteers in most of our service areas and have specific opportunities that we need to fill throughout the year:

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CURRENT VACANCIES

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Our Volunteers need to be 16 years+ and do not need any previous experience or qualifications.  People volunteer for a variety of reasons including:

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• Wanting to engage in work and/or care experience

• Students who are undertaking a college/university course 

• Individuals looking for a new interest and/or who want to give something back to the community

• Jobseekers who are exploring job opportunities and are in the process of returning to the workplace

• Finding a place where they can feel valued and meet new people

• Opportunities to volunteer as part of their work day (Corporate Volunteering)

• Research projects

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Whatever your reason for volunteering we welcome your                                                                         support.

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Why we need our Volunteers?

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Although Headway Birmingham & Solihull has 80 + staff, we

rely a great deal on the kindness and support of our Volunteers.

Volunteers can be of help in many ways; from making

refreshments, to providing the much needed 1-1 social

interaction for our clients, to assisting at our charity shop.

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You will meet and interact with a diverse ABI community who have

remarkable stories to share and you will discover new talents that you

didn’t even know you had!​ But best of all you’ll make new friends.

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What can you gain from volunteering at Headway Birmingham & Solihull?

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• A valuable understanding of brain injury

• The opportunity to learn, develop and practice new skills and interests

• Practical experience to compliment your college/university course

• Training and support

• Personal satisfaction in knowing that you are helping to improve the lives of others

• A Volunteer Handbook

• BHN Extras - Access to retail discounts and financial wellbeing tools 

• Volunteer awards and the opportunity to celebrate your work with Volunteers across all of our services 

• Reimbursement of lunch expenses for volunteers who volunteer with us for more than 1 year

• Travel expenses reimbursed 

• Headway sweatshirt/polo shirt on completing 1 years voluntary service 

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All Volunteers will be supervised by our staff where required. The Personnel Department will maintain contact and support for the Volunteers and respond to any challenges that may arise during the course of your placement.

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As you will be working with vulnerable adults, you will be required to provide 2 x references (Referees need to have known you for more than 2 years and not be related to you by blood or marriage). We also carry out online DBS and Digital ID checks for all of our volunteers.  

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So what do you need to be a Volunteer?

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Whatever your skills, we have volunteering opportunities in many areas and will aim to find a role to suit your availability, from volunteering directly with the clients to assisting our Caretaker with grounds maintenance and gardening. Every bit of help we receive is invaluable to us and will give you a great sense of satisfaction and achievement. We do require a minimum volunteer commitment of at least one full session per week from 9:30am - 2:30pm between Monday - Friday within our ABI Programmes, for a minimum period of 3 months. All other volunteer roles can be more flexible and also require a minimum commitment of 3 months.

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We have many areas listed below to give you an indication of where and how you could volunteer:-

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• Volunteering in any of our ABI Programmes - Volunteer Activity Assistants provide 1-1 support with education, IT and/or assist in the delivery of group sessions at our day centres, help out in the community or complete specific student volunteer placements (Psychology, Physiotherapy, Sports Therapy, Health & Social Care).

• Volunteering in our Carer/Family Services - Volunteer Office Assistants support our enquiry /helpline and help out at carer events. Volunteer Counsellors complete student counselling placements.  

• Volunteering in a specific skill area - Musician sessions, Therapist art/craft skills, aromatherapy sessions etc.

• Volunteering in our Sports/Wellbeing programme - Assist with sporting activities, wellbeing, therapies etc.

• Volunteering on the Board of Volunteer Trustee Directors - we often need new Board members

• Volunteering in our offices- Volunteer Admin Assistants support the administrative delivery of our services 

• Volunteering to help maintain our buildings/gardens - Volunteer Maintenance Assistant   

• Volunteering in our Fundraising Department - Volunteer Fundraising Assistant 

• Volunteering in our Charity Shop - Volunteer Shop Assistants assist with sales and stock management at our charity shop in Great Barr, Birmingham, B42 2PW.

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If you are still not sure what you could offer, but are interested in volunteering, feel free to contact our Personnel Department on 0121 457 7541 (option 5), Monday to Friday, 9am - 3pm or via email at personnel@headway-bs.org.uk to arrange a Taster Session where you can observe first hand the work that our staff and volunteers do with our clients and services.

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We look forward to hearing from you. 

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