Volunteer Telford

Passionate about health and wellbeing? Want to help support your family, friends and the local community to lead healthier lifestyles?

Health Champions are volunteers living in Telford and Wrekin who care about the health and wellbeing of those around them. They bring a mixture of their own life experiences, skills and training to make positive changes within their communities and help others to enjoy healthier lives.

Supporting the community as a Health Champion can include a mixture of exciting roles and activities. You can incorporate the role into day-to-day life through engaging in discussions and signposting around healthy lifestyles with others, like friends and family.

You will also be provided with the opportunity to find out more about a variety of health-related topics.

As well as raising awareness, there are opportunities for you to become more active in your community such as promoting public health messages at local community events or supporting local services with health and well-being related schemes.

What is the time commitment?

Time commitment is flexible, but on average one hour per week would be helpful to the role.

It is possible to fit the role into your existing day to day life and there are also opportunities to support others outside of your networks on both a regular and ad hoc basis. 

If you would like to get involved in events and projects, you can choose where and when you would like to help out.

What will I get out of being a Health Champion?

Benefits to you include access to training, improving your own emotional and physical health, being involved in your local community, making new friends and gaining new skills.

What you will do:

The volunteer will be helping the chef in the preparation of meals, keeping the kitchen clean and tidy including fridges

Volunteer will also help in serving tea, coffee and cakes to customers.

Time commitment:

Monday to Friday between the hours from 12 noon till 2pm

Benefits:

Travel expenses will be paid

Certificate of achievement after 3 months of volunteering

Increase confidence and self-esteem

Develop new skills and make new friends

Access to training and progress to new opportunities.

Training: 

Volunteers are required to attend food safety training

This role will require a DBS check.

Wellington orbit are looking for Cinema Steward volunteers.

Role:

- Checking tickets

- Escorting people to seats

- Helping in servery as required

- Using a App on a Tablet to scan tickets

- Talking to customers

- Upselling what we are and have here

Cinema Steward shifts are around 1 hour around the start of the performance times so

11 am show will be 10.30 – 11.30

2.30pm show will be 2.00 – 3.00

7pm show will be 6.30 - 7.30

5 days a week but we will be increasing to 7 day screenings at the end of September 2021

Location: 

Wellington Orbit  1 Station Road, Wellington TF1 1 BY

Benefits:

Being part of a great team

Increasing confidence

Learning front of house

Customer service and barista skills.

Training: 

No training is needed prior to starting but an interview and a trial shift would be required.

Mystery Customer Volunteers

As a Council we want to know what it is like for customers who use our services, so we can gain insight into what our customers expect and the level of service they receive. Our Mystery Customer programme is a new initiative to measure our services, with the aim of increasing customer satisfaction and reduce complaints. As a proactive Council we want to constantly improve and set clear service standards.

As a Mystery Customer we will invite you to use our services and provide open, honest, objective and constructive feedback on your experience of them. We will use the feedback to understand what is working well, and what not so well. Your valuable input will help shape and drive positive changes to services we provide.

Why become a Mystery Customer?

This is a great opportunity for you to get more involved and support your local community and to develop new skills or build on existing experience and knowledge.