Association Visitors - Shropshire (Volunteer)
MND Association
Ort der Stelle
Shropshire
Job-Details
Association Visitors (AVs) play a vital, valued and unique role in helping us to ensure people with MND and their families receive the support and services they require.
Do you enjoy listening to and helping people and are you looking for a challenging but rewarding volunteering role? By becoming an Association Visitor and donating your time, energy and skills, you can make a real difference to the lives of people affected by MND.
The role of AV is mostly a home-based role and will involve contacting people living with MND via phone, email or face to face visits – depending upon the needs of people living with MND and their location. Due to the nature of MND it is a challenging and emotionally demanding role, however it’s also a highly rewarding one.
As an Association Visitor, you will:
• offer emotional support to people living with and affected by MND
• provide information to people living with MND, their carers and families
• help people living with MND make informed choices
• help people to access appropriate services / support
• explain how the MND Association can support people living with MND, their carers and families
• attend support and supervision meetings, as well as development events.
Becoming a visitor can be a rewarding, enriching experience. Those who train as visitors come from all walks of life, and all backgrounds. You don’t need personal experience of MND – just the desire to make a difference.
We provide all our AVs with in-depth training to prepare them for the role and if you think you can commit time to the role then we would really like to meet you to talk through the role and what it involves.
About us
MND is a fatal, rapidly progressive disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. It attacks the nerves that control movement so muscles refuse to work. It can leave people locked in a failing body, unable to move, talk and eventually breath. It kills a third of people within a year and more than half within two years of diagnosis, and it has no cure.
The MND Association was founded in 1979. Our mission is to improve care and support for people with MND, their families and carers. We also fund and promote research that leads to new understanding and treatments and brings us closer to a cure for MND
