Volunteer home visitor (as part of our Home Visiting Scheme)

Good Companions is based in Clifton, Nottingham. We offer a Home Visiting Scheme for older residents of the Clifton, Wilford and Silverdale areas of Nottingham who are experiencing loneliness or social isolation. After a completed application form is received there is an informal interview, which is also an opportunity to ask questions. Two references are called for and there is an induction. A DBS is processed and paid for by Good Companions. Please phone Sarah Cox (Co-ordinator) for an informal chat about the role.

Volunteers are an essential part of Good Companions. At the friendship groups volunteers attend 30 minutes before the start of each group in order to assist with the set-up of the friendship group; volunteers also stay for around 15 minutes after the group in order to support with the tidy-up. Within the groups volunteers have a variety of roles including welcoming our lovely service users into the venue, making and serving hot drinks, providing support where necessary with activities such as playing dominoes and when bingo is being called, assisting people into and out of taxis if required. Our friendship groups all follow a similar (but not identical) format of refreshments being served, a quiz or word searches, an activity which includes a monthly health qi gong session, announcements/discussions over future events and bingo or card games.