Community volunteers
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Conversation Partner
Parent to Parent Support Volunteer (Eating Disorders Team, AMH & CAMHS)
Conversation Partner
Role purpose
The Conversation Partner scheme is operated by the Community Speech and Language Therapy - Stroke team in Mansfield for people with acquired speech / language difficulties following a stroke.
Each person has a different set of speech and language difficulties; these can include slurred speech, which is hard to understand, comprehension problems (so that it is hard for patients to make sense of spoken speech and / or written text) and expressive difficulties (including problems with finding words, constructing sentences, writing, and spelling)
Parent to Parent Support Volunteer (Eating Disorders Team, AMH & CAMHS)
Role purpose
You will provide support to the group facilitator and offer support to carers who attend the group and offer time to listen.
Individually matched to current parents / carers of clients within the ED case load, volunteers will meet with their match at least once a fortnight to offer peer support.
You will support the colleagues team to deliver training to other professionals (GP's) this may be in the form of telling your story.
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