As a volunteer you will become a valuable member of the team delivering support through encouragement, empowerment. You will promote positive working relationships with people that experience suicidal thoughts or mental health difficulties. As a volunteer you will receive training in how to speak about thoughts a feelings associated to suicide without embarrassment or shame to the individual. You will be part of a service that is creating network links by working in partnership with other organisations. As a volunteer you will be given the opportunity to develop new skills and improve your knowledge, and by working with other agencies and organisations you will be part a multi-agency strategy that is committed to strengthening network links and challenging future economic and social changes. As a volunteer you will use technology to engage with people in innovative ways to ensure that we reach all current and future service users. By providing support to people experiencing mental health problems, you will be recognising diversity and the need for people, local communities and groups to respect the ways in which needs are addressed across the local areas. We encourage all staff and volunteers to strengthen their skills and knowledge and be open to new opportunities and challenges, to enable us to uphold the needs of the service.

Seeking local volunteers who are looking for opportunities to support those within their local community who do not have local friends or family who can respond to them in times of required assistance. at home. Volunteers will be required from local communities across the Scottish Borders to attend alarm calls through an informal relationship with an alarm client/s that they are matched with. Where it has not been possible for trained operators in the Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) to resolve the call by providing an appropriate telephone based response the trained operators will contact Community Connector volunteers to check on and reassure the caller by attending to them at home. We acknowledge that sometimes an alarm can be set off by accident and in this case a volunteer will be on hand to provide reassurance and to reset the alarm. Where appropriate volunteers may provide any help as necessary and where able to do so safely, calling on the professionals and raising the alarm when it is not possible to provide assistance in a safe manner. It is essential that volunteers are able to follow up through reporting back to necessary professionals e.g. ARC and or the emergency services. Wider roles may include providing support to those who are isolated whether through Covid-19 or for any reason and again we seek to address isolation by utilising a number of 'community connectors' with opportunities to attend a range of meetings and events whether informal community / project based events or more formal events where there is an interest, which may include our knitting for new born babies, our Digital Boost and our connect and chat.

Seeking local volunteers who are looking for opportunities to support those within their local community who do not have local friends or family who can respond to them in times of required assistance. at home. Volunteers will be required from local communities across the Scottish Borders to attend alarm calls through an informal relationship with an alarm client/s that they are matched with. Where it has not been possible for trained operators in the Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) to resolve the call by providing an appropriate telephone based response the trained operators will contact Community Connector volunteers to check on and reassure the caller by attending to them at home. We acknowledge that sometimes an alarm can be set off by accident and in this case a volunteer will be on hand to provide reassurance and to reset the alarm. Where appropriate volunteers may provide any help as necessary and where able to do so safely, calling on the professionals and raising the alarm when it is not possible to provide assistance in a safe manner. It is essential that volunteers are able to follow up through reporting back to necessary professionals e.g. ARC and or the emergency services. Wider roles may include providing support to those who are isolated whether through Covid-19 or for any reason and again we seek to address isolation by utilising a number of 'community connectors' with opportunities to attend a range of meetings and events whether informal community / project based events or more formal events where there is an interest, which may include our knitting for new born babies, our Digital Boost and our connect and chat.

Seeking local volunteers who are looking for opportunities to support those within their local community who do not have local friends or family who can respond to them in times of required assistance. at home. Volunteers will be required from local communities across the Scottish Borders to attend alarm calls through an informal relationship with an alarm client/s that they are matched with. Where it has not been possible for trained operators in the Alarm Receiving Centre (ARC) to resolve the call by providing an appropriate telephone based response the trained operators will contact Community Connector volunteers to check on and reassure the caller by attending to them at home. We acknowledge that sometimes an alarm can be set off by accident and in this case a volunteer will be on hand to provide reassurance and to reset the alarm. Where appropriate volunteers may provide any help as necessary and where able to do so safely, calling on the professionals and raising the alarm when it is not possible to provide assistance in a safe manner. It is essential that volunteers are able to follow up through reporting back to necessary professionals e.g. ARC and or the emergency services. Wider roles may include providing support to those who are isolated whether through Covid-19 or for any reason and again we seek to address isolation by utilising a number of 'community connectors' with opportunities to attend a range of meetings and events whether informal community / project based events or more formal events where there is an interest, which may include our knitting for new born babies, our Digital Boost and our connect and chat.