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Are you passionate about mental health? Would you like to make a difference to your community? On this page you can learn what opportunities are available for you to get involved in our work.
Become a Trustee
The Board of Trustees is made of people from the local community including, service users, carers and local professional people.
Volunteer with us
Volunteers provide the perfect complement to our services. They bring a wide variety of skills, experiences and ideas to our organisation.
Job Vacancies
Learn about the vacancies we currently have available below. If no vacancies are currently showing, please check back again later.
Become a Trustee
We are always interested in hearing from potential new Board members. We are particularly keen to hear from applicants who have finance, marketing, and legal experience, but please do get in touch even if your skills fall outside these areas.
Caerphilly Borough Mind is governed by a Board of Trustees. The Board is made of people from the local community including, service users, carers and local professional people. We also ensure that those with lived experience of mental health issues are included in the makeup of the Board.
The Board of Trustees takes a strategic overview of Caerphilly Borough Mind’s activities and ensures that the organisation is acting at all times in pursuit of its mission:
- Trustees act as a single body
- Trustees ensure the organisation has a clear strategy or set of goals
- Trustees ensure the work and goals of the organisation are in line with its stated vision, usually defined in a governing document and often called the organisation’s ‘objects’
- Trustees keep a check on the organisation’s finances and activities
- Trustees appoint and support the head of staff (e.g. the chief executive or manager of the overall charity or organisation)
- Trustees delegate authority for day to day activities to appropriate staff and/or volunteers
- Trustees take overall legal responsibility for the organisation’s work
- Trustees must act in the interests of the organisation not themselves
- Trustees are volunteers and should not, generally, be paid though they should be reimbursed out-of-pocket expenses for their involvement as a trustee
Volunteer with us
Trainee volunteer counsellor placements
An exciting opportunity to join our counselling team at Caerphilly Borough Mind
Requirements:
- to be in at least 2nd year of a level 4 diploma course
- able to commit to 3-4 hours per week
- provide a certificate of proficiency or competency from your training body that confirms that you have been assessed as safe to practice with clients
- be able to work in a person centred/humanistic approach
- complete a general mental health awareness training and a suicide intervention training prior to beginning practice - we will have training opportunities available (Connect 5 and Suicide First Aid) but you can also explore what is available via Melo Cymru here: https://www.melo.cymru/for-professionals/
Benefits of a placement with Caerphilly Borough Mind
- Individual line management support from counselling staff team lead
- Possibility of working with clients from a variety of backgrounds and presenting needs
- Be part of an established, successful counselling service
- Access to Mind’s support information and training
- Flexible schedule
- A DBS check enhanced disclosure paid for by the organisation
Job Vacancies
There are currently no vacancies.
Please check again at a later date.
