Volunteering opportunity

Published: 13 February 2024

The Hull Community Voluntary Service (Hull CVS) is looking for empathetic people who can use their own experiences of living with a long term condition to support others. In this pilot volunteer telephone support service, individuals with one or more long term health conditions will be matched with volunteers who themselves have health conditions.

The conditions initially supported are diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory illness.

The volunteers will not be offering medical advice but will however, be able to offer support and reassurance and signpost to various voluntary organisations and charities etc to help the individual manage their condition well at home.

The aim is to work with prevention at the forefront to try and ease pressures off the NHS and to ensure people remain well at home by building up their resilience within their communities.

For more information please see the details on the poster below.