How to join us
All our new Volunteer Advocacy Workers need to complete our stage 1 training which fully prepares them for their important role. The training builds on the existing skills we all use in our day to day lives and ensures that volunteers feel confident that they are well informed and skilled at delivering high quality advocacy to our service users.
Your volunteering contribution is part of a two-way process that can bring you worthwhile work and life experience and opportunities for personal development. All volunteers need to have some availability during the working day, Monday to Friday.
Step 1: Apply
Please download our Volunteer Application Form, Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form and Criminal Convictions Declaration Form and send them back to us. These do need to be printed out, because you have to sign them. If you are unable to do this, please contact us and we will be happy to send the forms out to you.
Downloadable Forms and information.
Equality & Diversity Monitoring Form 
Criminal
Convictions Declaration Form
Step 2: Find out more
Join us at our Introduction Session for new volunteers, to meet the rest of the training group and have a short interview. We will send you more details when we have received your forms.
Step 3: The training!
Our next training course will run in Autumn 2010.
Get in touch at any time and we will let you know when the exact dates have been set.
We usually run two trainings a year. Places on the course are limited to 12 and usually fill up fast!
Step 4: Checks and references
Once you are accepted as a Volunteer Advocacy Worker with AdvoCard, we will take up 2 references and conduct an Enhanced Disclosure before you can go ahead.
Step 5: Getting started!
The work can begin! Whilst you are working with us we will offer you ongoing support and training to ensure that you continue to be able to work to a high standard. We want you to feel confident that your skills are up to date with the progress of the advocacy movement, mental health services and all relevant legislation. All out of pocket expenses will be covered.
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