Community Volunteer helping people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus

Community volunteers help us share important information to people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus, or support someone.

Our community volunteers usually:

• volunteer at multiple location

• don’t have a fixed time commitment

• help us on an ad-hoc, flexible basis

They do 4 main activities to help us make life fully inclusive for deaf people and people with hearing aids and tinnitus.

You don’t have to do all 4 of these activities – you can pick the activities you find most interesting and match your skills and experience.

Main Responsibilities  

1. Presenting
   Our volunteers give presentations and talks to share information. These might be in-person or held remotely online.
   Our volunteers deliver a pre prepared session aimed at increasing knowledge and understanding about hearing loss and Tinnitus and the support provided by RNID Nationally and locally.

2. Informing People
   Providing communication tips and highlighting the support available from RNID.  This might be information from RNID or information from other or organisations or charities, such as:

   NHS

   Citizen’s Advice

   Tinnitus UK

3. Helping people check their hearing
   Our volunteers help people take the RNID online hearing check. They take people through the steps in person on a digital tablet. 

4. Finding supporters and donors
   Our volunteers do important work to help us find people who can support our services and people who can donate money to help us fund our services. If you’re interested in helping us, find supporters and donors, we’ll give you full training so you feel confident and prepared.

Skills Required 

• Willingness to learn about issues affecting deaf people and people with hearing loss or tinnitus – particularly older people

• Friendly, reliable and an approachable manner

• Happy to work with a wide range of people

Time commitment: A suggested time commitment is 2 hours per month Monday – Friday, days and hours are negotiable with the organisation.
Expenses reimbursed: Reasonable out-of-pocket and pre-approved travel expenses repaid, 45p per mile for mileage.
Training: Full training and induction.  Once references are back, volunteer is booked in for a 2 hr online induction session.  These are held fortnightly and offer a choice of times and dates, once that is done, they will get an ID Card and RNID fleece or polo shirt and begin shadowing with other volunteers before undertaking training with the audiology team in their area.
Selection procedure: Informal chat, application form completion and 2 references (2 referees who’ve known you for at least 2 years).
If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact us using the form below.