CSV Assertive Outreach Befriending Scheme
Contact Name(s): Simon Mitchell
The Hope Ward Extension
Westminster House
Nottingham
NG3 6AA
Telephone: 0115 9691300
Email:
Website: http://www.csv.org.uk
Keywords
Mental health, befriending support , befriender.
Description
The scheme aims to enhance the befriending support available to adults who have enduring mental health difficulties and have difficulties in engaging with mainstream mental health services.
Volunteering opportunity:
Community befriender - befriending in a wide variety of settings.
Ward-based befriender - befriending on an acute psychiatric ward.
Qualities required: Patience, reliability, friendly + approachable, good communication + listening skills, honest,
non-judgemental attitude. Able to engage effectively with support. Insight into mental health issues.
Time: Flexible arrangements- wanted Mon-Sun, 9am - 9pm
The Assertive Outreach Befriending Scheme works in partnership with the Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust to develop the opportunities for volunteer-based befriending of those people in Nottingham, Greater Nottingham, Newark and Sherwood. By developing a new contribution to the social inclusion agenda in mental health, the scheme aims to provide a range of impacts on individual service -users that promote well-being, self-confidence and engagement with wider mental health services.
Definition of Organisation
We target people of a specific age
Adults 18+
Other
Focussed on people with a mental health disability
Working in the Partnership Council area (Area 4)
We work city wide, regionally or nationally
Work with residents of Nottingham, Greater Nottingham, Newark and Sherwood.