Create & Chat Group Facilitator Volunteer - Cardiff & The Vale Hospice

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Job Description

Join our Create and Chat Group as a Facilitator!

We are seeking enthusiastic individuals with a keen interest or expertise in art, music, drama, creative writing, or poetry to facilitate our Create and Chat group. This opportunity can be a long-term role or a one-off 6-week project. The group is open to anyone with or affected by a palliative condition.

Your role will be instrumental in creating a supportive group where individuals with or affected by a palliative condition can use the arts to explore and express issues related to life, loss, and personal experiences.

This volunteer opportunity takes place on Monday mornings

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Your role might include some of the following:

• Facilitating a group
• Bringing expertise and knowledge
• Working with the concept of 'What Matters to you'
• Creating a supportive environment
• Working with outpatients, inpatients, carers and people who are bereaved.
• Creating and facilitating projects

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• People with a creative skill to share and a willingness to teach others.
• Work with different abilities
• Understand that everyone's experience is different.
• Good communication and listening skills
• Can design projects.

VOLUNTEERING REQUIREMENTS:

• Enthusiasm and compassion.
• Someone who is comfortable teaching a group of people.
• Someone who is able to teach art, music, creative writing, poetry or drama.
• Willingness to participate in continued training and learning.

WHAT YOU CAN GAIN FROM THIS OPPORTUNITY

• Opportunity to be involved with a national leader in end-of-life care
• Comprehensive training and induction
• A supportive and empowering team environment
• Access to other volunteering opportunities within Marie Curie
• An opportunity to build on your skills in a charity environment

About Marie Curie:

Every day of your life matters - from the first to the last. When you Volunteer for Marie Curie, you understand that better than ever. We're a passionate, committed, and diverse team of more than 3,400 staff and 5,000 volunteers, here for people living with any terminal illness, and their families. We offer expert care, guidance, and support, to help them get the most from the time they have left. Everyone knows our daffodil, but it's our warmth, creativity and care that touch lives. Here, we take the time to really get to know the people we care for and those who love them. And we do whatever it takes to give them the final days and hours they deserve.

Everyone will be affected by dying, death and bereavement and deserves the best possible experience, reflecting what's most important to them. Marie Curie will lead in end-of-life experience to make this happen.

Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.

If you would like more information or have any questions about this role, please contact recruitment@mariecurie.org.uk