Creative Art Volunteer
Hospice in the Weald, Weald, Oxfordshire
Creative Art Volunteer
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Hospice in the Weald, Weald, Oxfordshire
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 4 days ago, 17 Oct | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 26c85c70daba484e83937c8a43a78218
Location ref: Weald, Oxfordshire
Full Job Description
- Welcome participants and help them feel comfortable, valued, and respected during sessions.
- Support the delivery of creative art activities such as painting, collage, crafts, drawing, textiles, or clay.
- Deliver Legacy Work by collaborating one-on-one with patients to write down life stories, or create keepsakes
- Assist with setting up and tidying away art materials and equipment before and after sessions.
We are looking for compassionate, warm, and conversational Creative Art Volunteers to support our patients through creative wellbeing activities and legacy work. While being artistic or handy with crafts is a wonderful bonus, the absolute essential requirement is the ability to talk and listen to people., Warm, approachable, and deeply empathetic manner. - Exceptional communication and active listening skills.
- Emotional resilience and the ability to cope with difficult issues like bereavement, illness, and death.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality, safeguarding standards, and professional boundaries.
- An interest in art, creativity, or crafts is a bonus, but not essential.
- Reliable, punctual, and able to work safely as part of the Living Well team. Time Commitment & Location This role offers complete flexibility with no set time commitment. You can support sessions on a regular weekly basis or on an ad-hoc, casual basis depending on your availability. Sessions are based at our main Hospice in Pembury, Kent, or Five Ashes, with potential opportunities to support other locations within West Kent and East Sussex. Volunteers will receive a full introduction to the role, mandatory training, and an Enhanced DBS check (funded by the hospice) to ensure you can support sessions safely and confidently.
Hospice in the Weald was founded in 1980 as a small home-care service in West Kent, born out of local community effort to support people with life-limiting illnesses. Over the decades it has grown from those humble beginnings into a vital palliative care charity serving West Kent and northern East Sussex, expanding its services to include an in-patient ward, day services, outreach and counselling support, all free of charge. Today, more than 40 years on, Hospice in the Weald continues to provide compassionate, personalised care to patients and their loved ones, celebrating life and offering dignity at the end of life for thousands in the local community. Hospice in the Weald Maidstone Road, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4TA
Direct job link
https://www.jobs24.co.uk/job/creative-art-volunteer-127603842