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Communication Partner

We require volunteers to provide levels of support to enable service users to resume everyday activities. Service delivery can be very diverse and your level of involvement can be adapted as necessary.

Potential volunteers must have a competent level of English language.

Volunteers will support service users to:

• Access communication based activities and conversations within a group setting.

Outreach Communication Partner

We require volunteers to support our service users to access the service delivery of their choice.

Service delivery can be very diverse and varies from support within a hospital ward, to individuals' goals which will enable the service user to build confidence in the home or community group setting.

The level of involvement can be adapted as necessary as we require volunteers to provide appropriate levels of communication support which will enable patients who have had a stroke to resume conversation activities in a hospital environment and / or within their own home or the local community.

Training and Support

Volunteers will undertake training in:

• Strategies and techniques of communication support.
• Inclusion with appropriate level of support for both groups and one–to–one conversations.

This will ensure service users are supported effectively by their communication support partner.

Full training in the techniques of communication support will be given and volunteers will be supported by their local coordinator and communication trainer .

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