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Volunteering is a great way for you to make use of your skills, give back, meet new people and gain valuable experience while supporting the work of Solent Mind. Explore ways to get involved below.
Use your experiences or passion for mental health to help our services deliver the very best information and support. These roles may have set hours each week or month, come with training and might be the first step towards a career at Solent Mind.
Many of our volunteers have a personal interest in mental health and bring with them their knowledge and experience, which is invaluable. We welcome volunteers from all backgrounds, particularly those who have experience of using mental health services.
We publicise all our volunteering roles here. If there is a role you would like to apply for, please complete and return the application form. If there are no role profiles, please check back at a later date to see if there are any current vacancies
Volunteer Opportunity Details:
Role Purpose:
The purpose of this role is to support our busy TARC and Data Entry Team (telephone and referrals centre) with their daily tasks to help process patient referrals and more.
Main Responsibilities:
The main tasks include processing patients referrals on our patient data base IAPTus. You may also be asked to support with printing post, franking of letters, sending out promotional materials and information to patients as requested by the therapists. Other tasks may include filing, tidying and general organising of the office.
For More Information Please Email:
DBS NOTE TO APPLICANTS - This role may require a relevant level of disclosure.
HOW TO APPLY:
The full details and applications for this role are only available via our Recruitment Portal.
Please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below.
This will automatically take you to our ‘Current Job Vacancies & Volunteering Opportunities’ page in our Recruitment Portal.
Enter the name of this role in the ‘Job Title’ section at the top of the page.
Click on ‘Search’ at the bottom of the page.
Once in the job details, you will be able to click on the ‘Apply Online’ button to complete your application.
If you're a yoga enthusiast, photographer, plumber or IT whizz who wants to give back, you could donate your time to our services or functions like HR, Digital or Building Maintenance. Your time could help ensure our funds remain focussed on life-changing support.
Please let us know your name, address and the skill you’d like to donate and we will get back to you.
To celebrate campaigns like Mental Health Awareness Week or fundraise for our vital services, we're out and about at events all over Hampshire.
You might come along to help our Fundraising team carry out a bucket collection, help wave the rainbow flag at a Pride event, cheer for our runners at a local marathon or paint faces on a charity stall. Share your details with us and you'll be first to know about new opportunities.
Please send us your name and address and we will let you know if any opportunities arise.
Sign Up as an Event VolunteerSolent Mind is really pleased to be able to support student placements which are highly beneficial to our organisation and to the students involved. We work with Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester and Reading Universities to offer a set number of student placements each year. These placements are agreed and organised directly between the University and Solent Mind.
We don’t have the capacity to offer other placements but students are very welcome to apply for any of our existing volunteer vacancies. All of our current vacancies are advertised on our website – see above. Please state on your application form what course you are doing and what the requirements of your volunteering might be for example between which dates you can volunteer and how many hours you may need to complete. We will do our best to accommodate you wherever possible.
I would encourage anyone to volunteer with Solent Mind if they’re interested in helping others with their mental health and would like to develop their own clinical skills!
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Becoming a volunteer with the group is really helping me to have a sense of purpose and gives me a structure to my week.
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Solent Mind has taken the chance to thank our volunteers with an event at Mayfield Nurseries with tea, coffees, and cake.
Use your experiences or passion for mental health to help our services deliver the very best information and support.
