Time Commitment Hoped: 1 -3 days depending on your availability
Location: Community settings, older people’s homes, some remote - Birmingham City Wide
About the Role
As an Age UK Digital Champion volunteer, you'll receive training to aid older individuals in improving their digital skills and confidence, conducting sessions in various settings. Your role includes understanding their online barriers, setting goals, tracking progress, and providing feedback for program enhancement.
Specific tasks may include:
* Work with older people in 1:1 and/or group sessions to develop their digital skills and confidence online. 1:1 sessions may be regular and ongoing depending on the needs of the individual. Get to know the older people you support and understand the barriers they face to getting online, helping them to overcome them. Work with older people you support to understand their goals and set out appropriate plans together to reach them. Using resources provided by Age UK, support older people during their sessions to record and celebrate their progress and learning. Collect data and information from older people’s sessions and share with the Digital Champion Program team as applicable, and securely.
Personal qualities and skills most suited to this role
1. Great listening skills and clear, personable communication, adaptable to various learner leve...