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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

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

Telephone Group Facilitator

Additional Location Information

Wales

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

Connect Community Volunteer - Activities which DO require a Criminal Record Check

Our growing Connect community brings us together as blind and partially sighted people, alongside others who care about us.The Community is where we can enjoy the company of others, give and receive help, share stories and information, get inspired and encourage others. It also helps us to come together to raise public awareness of sight loss and challenge barriers to independence.

We have many different opportunities for your talents and interests.You can help organise or provide general assistance at activities and events, gather information, write news features and much more.

Additional Location Information

Cambridgeshire (excluding Peterborough) and Hertfordshire.

How often will I be needed? 2 hours Per Week

Connect Community Volunteer - Activities which DO NOT require a Criminal Record Check

Additional Location Information

Cambridgeshire (excluding Peterborough) and Hertfordshire.

How often will I be needed? 2 hours Per Week

RNIB Connect Community Lead - Activities which DO require a Criminal Record Check

You can help build a connected community by sharing your particular skills and enthusiasm to reach and inspire other people with sight loss.

You will give encouragement, exchange knowledge and information, reach out and connect to those who are isolated, create enjoyable opportunities that will help us grow in confidence and build public awareness of what it’s like living with little or no sight.

You can choose what you want to do, how much time you want to give and focus on the things you enjoy doing whether in your local area, wider region or even nationally.

Additional Location Information

Cambridgeshire (excluding Peterborough) and Hertfordshire.

How often will I be needed? 2 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

RNIB Connect Community Lead - Activities which DO NOT require a Criminal Record Check

You can help build a connected community by sharing your particular skills and enthusiasm to reach and inspire other people with sight loss.

You can choose what you want to do, how much time you want to give and focus on the things you enjoy doing whether in your local area, wider region or even nationally.

Additional Location Information

Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Ceredigion, Torfaen, Glamorgan, Newport, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Rhondda Cynon Taff

How often will I be needed? 2 hours Per Week