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  • Volunteers

    There are volunteer opportunities for advisers, gateway assessors, research staff, administrative support staff and Trustees.

    Volunteer roles

    What do volunteer workers do?

    Gateway Assessors & Advisers

    • Interviewing – You will learn interviewing techniques, how to listen, and then talk to clients and ask questions to make the issues clear.
    • Giving information – Training will enable you to access information from our computer systems and reference books.
    • Giving advice – Your job is to give the client all the courses of action available to them so they can decide what to do
    • Giving practical help – Completing forms, making telephone calls, writing letters. You will also be trained in calculating benefits, tax and debts.
    • Case recording – You will be shown how to record your interviews to enable another advice worker to carry on further work for a client should they return for more help.
    • Research and Campaign – Identify issues where clients have been unfairly treated.

    What do volunteers gain ?

    • Rewarding and stimulating work that is so varied it can never be boring
    • The opportunity to update skills and learn new ones
    • A comprehensive training programme is provided which will be tailored to individual needs
    • Job specific IT training
    • Help for those wishing to re-enter the job market by :
      • providing experience in a caring supportive environment
      • a reference for future employers

    What we ask from a volunteer adviser

    • Are you prepared to honour our committment to impartiality ?
    • Can you agree to observe our strict rules of client confidentiality ?
    • Will you carry out the Citizens Advice’s policy on anti-racism ?
    • Are you willing to undertake extensive training ?
    • Are you prepared to attend our monthly staff meetings ?
    • Are you prepared to keep yourself up to date with new information ?
    • Are you available to volunteer for 10 hours each week ?
    • Are you willing to be flexible in the days that you work ?
    • Are you willing to continue to attend courses after your initial period of training is over ?

    How to find out more

    If you are interested in joining our friendly team then please contact Jo Hansen-Cole,  Manager, Citizens Advice Mid Bedfordshire, by email: recruitment@midbedscab.cabnet.org.uk

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