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Dial Up Volunteer

Are you looking for a home-based role which makes a real difference to people’s lives? Are you confident on the phone and in the use of computers, have a friendly voice and experience of basic admin work?

RNIB Talk and Support provides the opportunity for people with sight loss to meet each other in phone groups of up to 8 people. Volunteers provide the friendly voice of Talk and Support, calling participants to connect them to their telephone befriending group by phone or internet.

If you have any additional support needs, please let us know and we will do our best to ensure that you have the support you need to undertake the role successfully.

How often will I be needed? 6 hours Per Week

Befriending telephone facilitator

Are you a good listener? Are you confident working with IT and using the internet? We need you to facilitate our weekly befriending telephone groups that offer blind and partially sighted people the opportunity to socialise with others. You will connect our groups together and contribute to groups to ensure that all participants feel comfortable and that group conversations run smoothly.

This is a telephone-based role that you can do from home. You will need access to a computer, an internet connection and good IT skills. We ask you to commit to facilitating 3 or more groups per week which will be at the same day and time each week. Groups run for an hour a week.

How often will I be needed? 3 hours Per Week

Community Volunteer

Our amazing Community Volunteers play a key role in connecting blind and partially sighted people, awareness-raising, tackling barriers to independence and fundraising for our work.

Depending on your availability, training and interests, you will have the chance to take part in some or all of the following:

• help run events and regular groups
• give talks about sight loss, eye health, the work of RNIB and partners
• help with local campaigns
• organise fundraising events like store collections
• attend information stalls and cheque presentations, and
• make wellbeing calls to community members.

How often will I be needed? 4 hours Per Event

RNIB Scotland Advisory Group Member

Are you affected by sight loss? Would you like to work with RNIB Scotland to influence Society and Government to ensure positive change for people with sight loss?

Help us shape our understanding of needs and expectation, allowing us to campaign and influence more effectively.

Working together with our growing community, Advisory Group members will play a key role in building our community and influencing our external affairs work.

Our Scottish Advisory Group will be launched in the spring/summer of 2021 and we are looking to recruit people with lived experience to work closely with our policy & campaigns staff, community services team and RNIB Scotland Director to design our approach to influencing Government, promoting blind & partially sighted issues to society and growing and strengthening our community.

Additional Location Information

Advisory Group meeting held in Edinburgh quarterly, with opportunity to join remotely. Ad hoc activity and external meetings across Scotland. Office at RNIB Hillside available during the working week (post covid)

How often will I be needed? 48 hours Per Year

Occasional Helper

This flexible opportunity puts you at the heart of supporting blind and partially sighted people in your area. You could help with:

* Assisting groups of blind and partially sighted people;
* Awareness-raising and campaigning on issues that affect those living with little or no sight;
* fundraising so we can continue to offer our amazing services and tackle social injustice.

Whether its cheering at a challenge event, helping at an information stand or store collection, welcoming guests at an event, or something else, you can choose to get involved based on your availability and interests.

In applying for / signing up for this role you agree to be contacted when we are seeking volunteers to help with an activity / tasks in relation to this role description. We will contact you via a communication method for which you have given consent.

How often will I be needed? 3 hours Per Event

Occasional Helper with sighted guiding

This flexible opportunity puts you at the heart of supporting blind and partially sighted people. You could help with:

* sighted guiding / giving practical help to individuals so they can take part in events;
* supporting volunteers with sight loss with their volunteering activities;
* awareness-raising and campaigning on issues that affect those living with little or no sight;
* fundraising so we can continue to offer our amazing services and tackle social injustice.

Whether its cheering at a challenge event, helping at an information stand or store collection, guiding guests at an event, or something else, you can choose to get involved based on your availability and interests.

In applying for / signing up for this role you agree to be contacted when we are seeking volunteers to help with an event / activity in relation to this role description. We will contact you via a communication method for which you have given consent.

How often will I be needed? 3 hours Per Event

Telephone Group Facilitator

Are you a good listener? We need you to facilitate one of our weekly telephone groups that offer blind and partially sighted people the opportunity to socialise with others. You will contribute to the group to ensure that all participants feel comfortable and the group conversations run smoothly.

Additional Location Information

This is a telephone based role, you can do this from home if you have a landline.

How often will I be needed? 2 hours Per Week

Telephone Befriender

Are you a good listener? Do you enjoy a good chat?

We need Telephone Befrienders to call isolated blind and partially sighted people once a week, giving them the opportunity to have a friendly chat with someone who is prepared to listen and be supportive. You will contribute to the conversation to ensure the participant feels comfortable and the conversation runs smoothly. This opportunity is available to people living in Scotland as local knowledge is required.

Additional Location Information

Home based due to Covid-19

How often will I be needed? 2 hours Per Week

Roaming Tech Support

Our roaming tech volunteers provide one-to-one support to people with sight loss, visiting them in their own homes to help them get the most out of technology. They may help customers set up a new device, learn new features or trouble shoot tech problems. Roaming tech volunteers support people local to them.

Additional Location Information

We really need people in the Derby and Northampton areas. Home visits and venues across your local area. Access to telephone and email is required.

How often will I be needed? 4 hours Per Week

Community Facebook Moderator

RNIB Connect Members can now join regional Facebook pages and our online community to blog, join discussions and find out about events taking place locally. As our online community grows we need you to help moderate the content to ensure it is relevant, welcoming, safe and supportive. We also need you to welcome and support new members when they join.

How often will I be needed? 4 hours Per Week