Alongside a co-facilitator, you will facilitate a support group once a month for 2 hours.
What you'll be doing: Alongside a co-facilitator, you will facilitate a support group once a month for 2 hours. You’ll be welcoming people, encouraging discussion and dealing sensitively with issues or conflict that may arise within the group meeting. You’ll play an important role in ensuring meetings run to time and that everyone has an opportunity to share if they choose to do so. You’ll be responsible for emailing meeting reminders to group participants and submitting brief statistics to Bipolar Scotland after each meeting.
What you need: Passion for supporting and empowering others. We welcome applications from people living with bipolar, or experience supporting others with bipolar or another mental health condition. Experience of engaging with groups previously would be an advantage, but not necessary. A belief that everyone can work towards their own personal mental health recovery, and an understanding that this will look different for each person. Excellent listening and communication skills. Good IT skills. The ability to commit to facilitating a meeting once or twice a month – reliability is essential. A commitment to confidentiality.
We need from you: A PVG certificate / check is required to carry out this role. Two references.
Training will take place in the form of 3x 2 hour online training sessions for volunteer facilitators, which include the completion of some e-learning modules outside of that time.
Must be over 18