Home Visitor

Our volunteers are an essential part of our organisation, enabling us to provide a wide breadth of services to our service users.  By becoming a home visitor, you can develop your communication and interpersonal skills. You will make a vital difference to the person you visit by reducing their sense of loneliness and social isolation

What skills do I need?

This role requires a weekly commitment at a time to be agreed by both you and our client. We will regularly make contact with you both to see how the relationship is building and would ask you to commit to a weekly call for the minimum of 12 weeks.

In order to ensure a member of staff is available in case of a safeguarding concern, we ask that visits take place Mon-Fri between 9am-4pm. 

We are looking for friendly, reliable people who can be patient with clients who may have a vision impairment, be hard of hearing or deaf/blind. Your role is to be there to provide a befriending service and allow clients to continue hobbies in their own home. The role will not involve providing personal or health care. 
You may observe difficulties the person has developed and with agreement from the person, you should inform Sight for Surrey of any concerns, needs or additional support requirements.To assist the person to continue any hobby that their sensory impairment is making it more difficult to achieve, within the home environmentTo make recommendations for further support from other Sight for Surrey services, at the end of the prearranged time of service