Webinar: Volunteer Training Programme

In the recording below you will hear about a suite of volunteer modules that have been developed to support volunteers. The training has been co-designed with volunteers and volunteer managers and has been developed in collaboration with Skills for Care.

Those volunteering across health and care, in acute Trusts, local authorities and voluntary sector organisations have thousands of contacts every day with individuals and are ideally placed to support health and wellbeing. The training covers key themes that are important at a ‘place level’ such as health inequalities and making every contact count.

The training will help volunteers who are supporting individuals ‘Back to Health’. Whether this be by calling people on waiting lists and checking how they are, supporting them post discharge or visiting them in their home as part of a fall's prevention programme.

During the session you will hear more about why the training was developed, how it has been designed and how you can get access to the training material.

Our speakers are:

• Mark Lever, CEO - Helpforce
• Tricia Pereira, Director of Operations - Skills for Care
• Natalie Spinks, Project Manager - Skills for Care
• Gemma Smith, Health and Wellbeing Manager - Warwickshire Community and Voluntary Action
• Sara Miles, Programme Manager - Helpforce

For a copy of the presentation slides and the Frequently Asked Questions document please download the attached PDF's

A short video below explains why volunteers should complete the training programme. See attachments for a PDF of an example script that you may wish to use to create your own video to encourage volunteers to complete the training,

Two short video messages about the programme from Mark Lever, CEO of Helpforce and Tricia Pereira, Director of Operations at Skills for Care.

If you would like to embed the modules into your own system please complete this Microsoft Office form: https://forms.office.com/e/G3rZL2dDPg