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Staff Vacancies

 

Receptionist

Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm

£13,000 per year

For full details and an application pack please call the Sight Centre or e-mail kerrykeast@cornwallblind.org.uk

Closing date: Friday 28th October 2005.

 

Support Worker for Visually Impaired IT Technician

4 days per week

£6.95 per hour

For full details please contact the Sight Centre or e-mail info@cornwallblind.org.uk

Closing date: Friday 11th November 2005.

 

Volunteer Opportunities

 

Training is provided and volunteers are required to be recruited through existing CBA procedures which involve references being taken and prospective volunteers having a CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) disclosure undertaken.

 

Driving – Escort drivers urgently required to drive visually impaired clients to medically associated appointments and to the various clubs for visually impaired people. We would like to encourage drivers to offer their services on a ‘flexible’ basis if they are not able to make a regular commitment on a weekly / monthly basis. Drivers ideally located in, or within 5 miles radius of:

Callington

Falmouth

Helston

Newquay

Redruth

St Ives

St Mawes

St Austell

Truro

 

Clubs

 

Would you be interested in organising a club meeting / get together for visually impaired people, either once a month or fortnightly?

 

The St Minver Club currently meet once a month from 2.00pm – 4.00om at the Perceval Institute in St Minver. Due to retirement we are seeking a new organiser for the club.

 

A vacancy has arisen for a club organiser to run the social get togethers for visually impaired people at Chy Nampara, Falmouth. They meet twice a month, on Wednesday from 2.00pm – 4.-00pm

 

We are also seeking a person to help at the CABS (Cornwall Association Blind Shooting) Club. The club meets every Wednesday afternoon between 2.00pm and 4.00pm at Helston Rifle Club.

 

Active Blind Leisure (A.B.L.e) need a helper to assist the Club Organiser with a variety of duties on a regular basis. The club meet twice a month on Monday’s at Shortlanesend Village Hall from 2.00pm – 4.00pm.

 

Befriending

 

Volunteers are required to visit visually impaired people in their homes once a fortnight or once every three weeks. Ideally, living within a short distance from where the client lives.

 

Redruth – We have a client that needs a volunteer to read and sort out junk mail, make phone calls and help with queries as directed by the client.

 

St Agnes – A gentleman who has recently lost his sight and afraid to venture on to the road because of the traffic would like someone to go out for a short walk with him from time to time.

 

Camborne – A client who urgently needs someone to help with clerical needs i.e. filing and correspondence.

 

Other Opportunities

 

Assisting General Manager with compiling and dispatching media releases – one or more volunteers required to work on a flexible basis either based from home or at the Sight Centre to assist the Association build up and develop their relationship with the media and compile, send out and chase up regular media releases.

 

 

 

If you are interested in becoming a CBA volunteer and would like further details on any of the above please contact:

 

Linda Packer, Volunteer Services Co-ordinator, 01872 266710 or e-mail@ lindapacker@cornwallblind.org.uk

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