Re-Engage
Description of the role
As a tea party group coordinator, you’ll plan, organise and schedule monthly tea parties in your local area. This is an administrative role that requires communicating and socialising with older guests, volunteer hosts and drivers from all walks of life.
Each tea party group usually last for around two hours and take place on a Sunday afternoon.
Tea parties provide a lifeline of friendship for socially isolated or lonely older people. The warm, regular, and friendly companionship provides a vital link with the outside world from which they’ve become isolated.
To become a tea party group coordinator you’ll need to:
- Have a 30-minute induction call with a member of the Re-engage team.
- Submit a DBS check (England and Wales) or a PVG check (Scotland).
- Provide a reference.
- Complete online volunteer training modules.
- Although many tea party group coordinators are also tea party drivers, this is not a requirement of the role.
Tasks include:
- Welcoming and supporting new volunteers into the tea party group so they can start volunteering with confidence.
- Welcoming new older guests to the tea party group and contacting them before their first tea party group so that they feel welcome and comfortable.
- Arranging the annual tea party schedule so the hosts know when it’s their turn to host and older guests and drivers know where the tea parties are each month.
- Matching older guests to volunteer drivers, so the same drivers collect and drop off the same older guests each month.
- Keeping in regular contact with the tea party group older guests and volunteers, and sharing any updates from Re-engage that are relevant to them.
- Responding to any issues and queries from the volunteers and older guests in the tea party group.
- Following the guidance in the online volunteer training so that the tea parties are safe, enjoyable, appropriate and in line with our charitable aims.
- Keeping in regular contact with Re-engage and reporting any concerns to the team.
- Promoting the tea party group in your local area so we can recruit more volunteers and support more older people.
- Completing a short online report about the tea party group four times a year.
- Keeping your knowledge and training up to date by reading our monthly volunteer newsletter – Re-engage Matters.
We’re looking for someone who would love to give to their community, who has good admin skills or looking to learn, confident and able to communicate effectively to a wide variety of people, enjoys having fun!
Practical Considerations
- Full support throughout signing up and during your volunteering time, a dedicated staff member who will be on hand should you need anything or have questions.
Any specific requirements
- Will require criminal record check.
- Must be over 18.
Where is the opportunity based?
This opportunity is across Redditch.
When is the opportunity available?
Flexible depending on need.
About the organisation
Re-engage provides vital, life-enhancing social connections for older people at a time in their lives when their social circles are diminishing.
Bromsgrove and Redditch Network 