Volunteering

Over the years, Assist has developed a number of creative ways to help members develop their work skills in the local community.

Note: All community placements supported by Assist are carefully risk assessed and regularly reviewed to ensure they provide safe and appropriate placements for the member involved.

When appropriate, Assist will support individual members into voluntary jobs in ways that help them manage the placement more independently over time. Travel training and job coaching is provided by the Assist Employment and Travel Training team and support is given to both initiate the placement and to help sustain it over time.

For those individuals unable to manage the travel training aspect of this process, Assist has recently been timetabling groups that go out to community voluntary placements each and every week, with members of staff on hand to support both the journey and the tasks in hand.