Volunteer from home
It’s important to us that volunteers are able to support The Charity in a way that is flexible and suits the amount of time they are able to give, while helping us to move closer to our goal of defeating brain tumours.
Our digital volunteer opportunities can be done from home, in your own time. Find out more about all of our current opportunities below.
We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups across all protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, sex, and religion or belief.
Current roles
Primary Care Advisory Group Role –
We are looking for experts in General Practice to advise on a project on brain tumour diagnosis. Our Headsmart & Better Safe Than Tumour campaigns successfully reduced the paediatric time from seeing a GP to diagnosis. Now we want to look at Adults as well as Paediatrics in reducing these times even further with our new “Faster Better” project aimed at Healthcare Professionals like you working in Primary Care. Before we know how best to focus our efforts as a charity, our aim is to understand and improve the pathway for adults and children being diagnosed with a primary brain tumour in the UK. We want to know what helps you and what also impedes you as Primary Care Health Professionals in getting patients referred in to have an MRI/CT scan or onto secondary care quickly. Can you spare us 1-2hrs a month to help us understand these barriers? The link to the application form is on the job description.
Volunteer Counsellor (Qualified) – Recruitment will reopen in September 2024 –
As a Volunteer Counsellor for this service you would work with a wide range of clients who either have a brain tumour diagnosis themselves or have a loved one who has been diagnosed. This includes patients/carers who have been newly diagnosed, to those in/post treatment, to people at end of life, or bereaved. This is a remote service, where we offer up to 8 free sessions to clients, delivered by either telephone or webcam.
Student Counsellor – Recruitment will reopen in September 2024 –
We are in a position to offer a number of unpaid student placements, to those training to be integrative or person centred counsellors, which will see you work via telephone/webcam only, with a wide range of clients; from those newly diagnosed, to those at end of life, carers and bereaved loved ones. This is a home-based role, and you can help by volunteering your time to see a minimum of 3 clients per week, between the hours of 9am—5.30pm, Monday—Friday.
Challenge Events Motivation Caller – Recruitment is paused until our Autumn events. –
To ensure our fundraisers receive the best possible support, we like to give each of them a call before their challenge event to wish them good luck. But with hundreds of fundraisers, we need your help! If you sign up to help, you’ll be allocated a number of fundraisers to contact at a time that suits you during the week or two prior to each challenge event. We will provide you with all the information you need including a script to follow and frequently asked questions so that you feel confident to make calls to our fundraisers.
Scottish Steering Committee – Chair & Vice Chair roles –
The Scottish Steering Committee is a voluntary group connected to the Brain Tumour Charity who drive policy, campaigning and influencing work in Scotland, with the support of The Charity. It aims to represent the views of key stakeholders in Scotland and be a solution orientated advisory board to help achieve its stated objectives. An ambitious and dedicated group, last year, members agreed that the key objective of the Committee over the next two years is to campaign for a faster diagnosis for those affected by a brain tumour. Achieving this through influencing, supporting and campaigning to improve all aspects of the diagnostic journey. The Committee currently meets once every second month rotating between a virtual and in person meeting. However, you can also join the meeting virtually if unable to join in person. Meetings are around 90 minutes long. Application form link is on the job description below.
If you’d like to apply for any of the roles above, please complete the relevant application form.
Share your skills
Not found a role to match your expertise or interests? If you have skills you’d like to share with us, we’d love to hear about them. Complete our skills survey and we’ll get in touch when new opportunities or projects come up, which we think would be a good fit for your experience. Complete our skills survey here.
We also have digital roles suited to volunteers who have been impacted by a brain tumour diagnosis and want to use their experience to inform our work.
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Supporting The Charity gives me immense satisfaction, and is a huge source of pride. Now the priority of working and raising my family is less intense I have something else to give me a real purpose.
Andy, home-based volunteer