Charity No 1111735

Volunteer and Awareness Co-ordinatorPost

This pack contains:

  • Service Summary
  • Job Description
  • Person Specification
  • Application FormEqual Opportunities Monitoring Form

For an application pack, please download from our website: or email .

The application form and declarations can be completed and emailed or printed and posted to:

West Norfolk Befriending

12 Thoresby College

Queen Street

King’s Lynn

Norfolk

PE30 1HX

If you have any further queries contactPippa May 01553 763500

or Kevin Vaughan 07747777243.

Closing date for applications 5.00pm on Thursday 6th August.

Interviews will be held in King’s Lynn on 13th or 14th August.:

We look forward to receiving your completed application.

West Norfolk Befriending

Service Summary

The Volunteer and Awareness Co-ordinator post is hosted by West Norfolk Befriending but will be working across the entire CAP partner organisations.

CAP is a formal partnership of eight experienced local carers’ support organisations, commissioned by Norfolk County Council and Norfolk’s five NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups, to provide the Adult Carers Support Service (16+) in Norfolk.

CAP is led by Crossroads Care East Anglia; the other partners are: Norfolk Carers Support, West Norfolk Carers, West Norfolk Befriending, Age UK Norfolk, Norwich and Central Norfolk MIND, West Norfolk MIND and Great Yarmouth and Waveney MIND.

CAP offers a range of services and support and is the one stop shop for:

• Information and Advice

• One-to-one support and Advocacy

• Befriending

• Emotional Support

• Short Breaks

CAP works closely with the Carers Council for Norfolk to raise awareness of carers’ issues and needs and to develop our services.

Access to the CAP service is through the Carers Agency Partnership Helpline which is the front door to the carers’ services in Norfolk provided by CAP.

West Norfolk Befriending brings their experience of working with Volunteers to the CAP partnership.

West Norfolk Befriending works with socially isolated olderpeople. Many of our clients are socially isolated due to their role as an unpaid family carer, or due to a long term physical or sensorydisability.

West Norfolk Befriending aims to reduce social isolation and improve life quality by matching isolated older people with a trained DBS checked, and fully inducted volunteer befriender, who will visit them on a regular basis. In addition to offering regular visits such contact helps clients maintain their independence, improves quality of life, identifies risks to health & environment, and where possible facilitates reintegration to community life.