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What does being a group facilitator involve?
Running safe support groups on your university campus
- In any group session, there should be two trained facilitators at all times.
- Within your team, we expect you to run the full amount of sessions as according to the support group you are running.
- We expect you to run group meetings in a professional manner. You should ensure that attendees are able to express themselves in a non-judgemental and pro-recovery environment.
Monitoring and evaluating your support group
- We expect that you inform us of how many attendees you have per session.
- We expect you to encourage attendees to provide feedback – via forms we provide.
Publicity and promotion of your support group.
- We expect you to assist your other facilitators in the organisation of the project, including publicising and promoting the group on your campus.
- In order to run a successful support group, as a group facilitator you are expected to work together with your team and Student Minds to manage, organise and promote your support group.
- We expect you to stay in regular contact with Student Minds. At the minimum we ask that you provide information for the bi-annual volunteer review that Student Minds completes.
Working together with your group and Student Minds
- This may include booking rooms, contacting staff and developing publicity materials.
Time Commitment:
- You should be prepared to spend 10 hours a month working with your support group project. If you feel your project is taking up more time than this get in contact with us at emily@studentminds.org.uk.
- You should be prepared to stay involved with the support group project for a minimum of one year from training.
- If you do wish to stand down from your role we ask that you provide us with as much notice as possible.
To apply, please complete the application form on the website: http://www.studentminds.org.uk/peer-support-application-and-training.html