volunteer
are you interested in supporting children and young people with space2grieve?
We are excited to announce that we are looking to recruit people supporting bereaved children and young people to join our volunteers.
Deadline for applications: 14 February 2025
Specialist bereavement supporters for children and young people – click the button below to download further information including skills required and training dates.
CYP support specialist - role specifications
Personal specification
Essential requirements:
- Experience working with children in a professional or voluntary capacity, for example, in a school, nursery, church or youth club. This could include listening to children reading in a primary school for a minimum of one academic year.
• Experience using counselling/listening skills in paid or unpaid employment.
• Awareness of the impact of personal experience of death and bereavement.
• Ability to manage sensitively and with compassion the needs of a young client within the boundaries of the service offered.
• Ability to maintain client and volunteer confidentiality.
• Good basic IT skills including email.
• Ability to maintain a professional approach at all times with fellow volunteers, young clients, parents and school staff.
• Confidence in own judgement and initiative but able to seek guidance as appropriate from supervision, Designated Safeguarding Leads and the Service Management team.
• Ability to be self-reflective, autonomous and practice self-care.
• Awareness of and commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion and the implications for supporting bereaved clients
Able to commit to:
• Attend the full experiential training programme and induction (dates above),
including completing the written requirements of the course.
• Complete Level 2 CYP Safeguarding course whilst training with space2grieve and undergo Enhanced DBS Check.
• Travel throughout Richmond borough to see children at the venue most appropriate for their needs (including schools).
• Volunteer within school hours and/or between 4pm and 6pm seeing a minimum of 2 child clients a week for 45-50 minutes each.
• Attend monthly 2-hour group supervision sessions.
Desirable:
- Qualification in working therapeutically with children and/or adults.
- Resident of Richmond borough.
- Experience of supporting bereaved children.
- Holder of a current and transferrable Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate
- Holder of transferrable safeguarding certificate.
If you want to make a difference to the lives of people in their grief, then we welcome your application.
You can download the specification document here with full details of the training schedule.
The next training course will be held in Apri/May/June 2025. Please note if you are successful in your application there is a cost of £350 for the training course.
Please register your interest by 14 Feburary 2025 to cyprecruitment@space2grieve.org.uk.
join our team of bereavement support specialists
We are also looking to recruit volunteer Bereavement Supporters for Adults, the next training course will be held in September/October 2025.
bereavement support specialist - role specifications
Personal specification
Essential requirements:
- Experience of working in a person-centred environment.
- Experience of using active listening skills.
- Awareness of own personal issues around death.
- Ability to manage sensitively and with compassion the needs of the client.
- Ability to maintain a professional approach at all times with both volunteers and clients.
- Confident of own judgement and initiative but able to seek guidance as appropriate from supervision and the service management team.
- Ability to be self-reflective, autonomous and to practice self-care
- To be responsible for maintaining and developing one’s own professional development.
- Awareness and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and the implications for supporting bereaved clients.
- Ability to maintain client and volunteer confidentiality.
- Be competent with basic IT systems.
- Commitment to the space2grieve service model and values – as explained on the website.
- To be available for a minimum of 2 hours at the same time each week with monthly addition of 2 hours for supervision.
- Commit to attending the full training programme and induction and additional CPD provided.
Desirable:
- Additional qualifications in counselling/health/social care professional training
- A resident of Richmond Borough
- Experience of working with bereavement
- Holder of a current and transferrable Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate
If you want to make a difference to the lives of people in their grief, then we welcome your application.
You can download the specification document here with full details of the training schedule.
The next training course will be held in September/October 2025.
Please register your interest to recruitment@space2grieve.org.uk.
space2grieve is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, enabling everyone to make a difference through volunteering and voluntary sector organisations.
join our team of trustees
Becoming a trustee for a charity can be a rewarding and impactful experience. If you would like to contribute to the long-term stability of space2grieve and the continuation of our free bereavement services for the residents of Richmond borough, we would love to hear from you.
Contact us at recruitment@space2grieve.org.uk and we will arrange a chat with you.
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what our volunteers are saying
“what i value about being a space2grieve volunteer is the unique relationship I form with my clients. i learn something from everyone i support. i like getting to know them and feel privileged that they trust me enough to share their feelings with me. i feel good knowing that i have made a difference to someone’s life”
“i feel very privileged to sit alongside the pain and suffering of those experiencing grief
and loss. not everyone can do it… there are many things i am not able to do but i can do
this! and therefore feel very grateful that in doing so i can contribute to easing others’ pain”
“i work full time and i make time to volunteer as a Specialist Bereavement Supporter. This is the best thing i do all week and this is how i look after my well-being”
“i feel as if i am part of something important and get great satisfaction from helping others”