Engagement and Well-being Teams
Our engagement team are the heart of service user support. Fascilitating activities and communicating with service users to ensure that their voice is heard within our community and the causes that affect them are shared within the charity.
What You'll Do:
- Facilitate groups and activities: Walk and Talks, card and board games groups, well-being groups, social activities, LGBTQ social activities.
- Sharing information and our cause at local events
- Volunteers are encouraged to share vulnerabilities and shared lived experiences to build trust and provide peer support.
- Communication and resource sharing/sign posting with service users
- Supporting the well-being of both service users and volunteers
- Ensuring adaptations and accommodations are communicated
- Supporting other teams with research and strategy
Why You'll Love It:
Within both our well-being and engagement teams, we have hands-on but flexible opportunities to support Autistic, ADHD and people with other neurodivergence. Due to the arrangement and perspectives of our organisation our service users are able to feel valued and authentic, allowing for a wholesome and rewarding workplace. With community at the heart of Tees Valley Buddies, it allows for a comfortable and enjoyable environment.
Neurodivergent people, specifically, have the opportunity to develop skills in an adaptable and inclusive space designed to meet the needs surrounding neurodivergence. We encourage and support Authenticity in volunteers and staff members as much as we do our service users.
What You'll Learn:
Develop leadership skills
First hand experiences within the neurodivergent and related communities
Relationship building
Mentoring and peer support skills
Time management and organisation
Neuronormative practices and experiences above deficits and pathologization
Inclusivity and new ways to create equity
What We're Looking For:
We're particularly looking for someone to help facilitate evening and weekend activities that better suit individuals that either work or are in education however the role is open to several individuals to provide additional support within the team as a whole.
Neurodivergence or lived experience with our related causes would be ideal.
We are looking to build on a dedicated and passionate team with people that are empathetic and open to holding space for a wide variety of Autistic, ADHD people and people with other neurodivergence such as Tourettes, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia etc.