Hub meet and greet volunteer

Shropshire Supports Refugees was established in 2016 to bring relief and support to vulnerable families displaced by unrest in their home countries relocating to Shropshire. 

Our Hub meet and greet role will be based at our Shrewsbury Hub and your role will be to create a warm and welcoming environment for anyone reaching out to Shropshire Supports Refugees. You will greet visitors, answer calls, register new service users, and help manage appointments. You may also be asked to  assist staff with low level adminstration tasks.

About Shropshire Supports Refugees

Our History
​Shropshire Supports Refugees (SSR) began as a welcome group for Refugee Action in 2016. Amanda Jones and a group of her friends started arranging collections of items for arriving families who were resettling in Shropshire under the governments VPRS.
Through a closed Facebook group Amanda set about coordinating the many offers of informal help, donations and friendship from local people.
In 2017, Shropshire Supports Refugees became a not for profit Community interest company and started to
promote awareness of the migration crisis and the needs of the refugee community in Shrewsbury and Shropshire.
Towards the end of 2021 SSR gained charity status and is now a registered CIO.

What skills do I need?

We provide a comprehensive induction, on-going training and support to all our volunteers however there are some skills we require you to have that are specific to this role:

• Be warm and welcoming to all
• Enthusiastic and passionate about working with refugees, migrants and asylum seekers
• Willingness to work as part of a team
• Good phone manner 
• Organized 

When do I need to be available?

	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Details

We spilt the shifts into AM or PM which each shift being 4 hours.

Where does this role take place?