What roles are available?
Live Well Wakefield champion
Promote the Live Well Wakefield service out and about within your community. Attend groups, pop into community centres with our promotional material, and help raise the profile of the service to ensure that others understand the support on offer.
Community access volunteer
Use empathy, listening skills and encouragement to help people rebuild their confidence to attend community activities independently and reduce social isolation. Provide a helping hand by accompanying them on their journey and supporting them to feel comfortable in a new place.
Workshop facilitator
Utilise your valuable lived experience to co-facilitate self-management workshops for others who are seeking help and advice on how to self-manage their long-term condition. Share your knowledge and learning to empower others.
Warm greeter
Be the friendly welcoming face of our self-management workshops, helping others to feel comfortable as they arrive and settle in. Utilise communication skills to get people talking and ensure they feel supported to participate.
What does volunteering at Live Well Wakefield offer?
As a volunteer with us, you can expect a full training package tailored to your role, as well as a dedicated supervisor who will be on hand to guide and support you. You will have the opportunity to learn about how social prescribing and self-management support works in practice and experience first-hand the impact it can have on yours and others health and wellbeing. Through helping others, you can develop your interpersonal skills and abilities too.
What do we ask for?
To apply, you will need to fill in an application pack, complete a DBS check (free) and provide references. A package of mandatory training must be completed before you can begin volunteering with us, in addition to role-specific training; as you will be volunteering as part of the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, you may be helping people who are vulnerable and our priority is always to keep both you and others safe.
Volunteering roles play a key role in the support we provide and we value the commitment of our volunteer team. We will therefore speak to you to establish what you can commit to, and discuss the most suitable volunteering opportunity for you and the service.
Current vacancies
We are currently recruiting: Community access volunteers, Workshop facilitators and Live Well Wakefield Champions.
If you would like to find out more about joining our team, please contact Paul Boyd on paul.boyd@swyt.nhs.uk or call
07836 674762 / 01924 255363
Placement opportunities
Unfortunately, we are not able to accommodate student placements (e.g. counselling, social work). Please contact South West Yorkshire Partnership (NHS) Foundation Trust directly for more information on opportunities within the wider organisation.