Applications Volunteer

Are you interested in gaining administration, communication and IT experience?Caudwell Children are looking for volunteers to help with our Applications team.

As a volunteer in our Applications department, roles and responsibilities may include:

• Processing and completing applications for specialist equipment, therapies and treatment, verifying financial documentation and diagnosis letters
• Data inputting onto our database system
• Carrying out a range of administrative tasks such as filing, composing emails, scanning.
• Providing an information and signposting service
• Writing financial and application summaries
• Communication with other organisations via telephone and email
• Answering telephone / email enquiries regarding the status of applications

We're looking for somebody approachable, dedicated and responsible, with a good level of written and verbal communication, and telephone and computer literacy.

Can you spare 3-4 hrs a week? We are open 9-5 weekdays - We suggest a minimum commitment of 6 months for this role - full training and support will be provided.

• Administrative experience in a voluntary or employment capacity
• Comfortable using a computer and learning new IT systems
• Previous experience of data entry into IT systems in a voluntary or professional capacity
• Comfortable are you answering phone calls
• Good level of written and verbal communication skills
• Enjoy making conversations with new people

Your input will help shape the lives of children that we support through various forms of funding. With your help we will be able to continue to provide support to children throughout the UK and how they access services.

Hello

Thank you for registering your interest to volunteer with Caudwell Children, it is great to hear from you!

You can read the role descriptions of our volunteering opportunities on the Volunteer page of our website which can be found here and once on this page, the next step is to fill in an application form by clicking on "Become a volunteer".

Once we have received your application, a member of the team will be in touch to go through the next steps in our volunteer journey with you.

If you have any questions or would like some support filling out the application form, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you