Community Network Support

Time commitment: 2 to 5 hours per month including support, networking
and training
Travel: A community-based venue and online
Location:

Do you want to use your knowledge and understanding of life with arthritis to help others? Are you motivated to empower others to feel supported and live the life they chose?

If so, we would love to have you as a volunteer. Apply today - make a positive difference to people’s lives and help us to achieve a future free from arthritis.

About the role

Across the UK, our community networks play a vital part in supporting people with arthritis, chronic pain and arthritis, chronic pain, and musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. Our community networks are open to all and provide a sense of belonging, unity, and friendship and deliver services and support in their local community

Supporting the Community Network Organiser volunteer with the smooth running of the network
Promoting your network and the work of Versus Arthritis to encourage a greater diversity of participants
Ensuring safeguarding procedures are followed

Download the role profile for a Community Network Support (PDF 139KB).

If you have any questions about this role before applying, please contact volunteering@versusarthritis.org .

How to Apply

Please complete and submit the Volunteering Application Form online please include the relevant code for the location of the role you are interested in:

When we have received your application we will be in touch, our safer recruitment process will include:

An informal chat to discuss the role, get to know you and understand your motivations for volunteering 
Two references 
Photo identification.

About us

We have made a commitment in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.  We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.   

There are over 10 million people living with arthritis. That’s one in six, with over half of those living in pain every single day. The impact is huge as the condition slowly intrudes on everyday life – affecting the ability to work, care for a family, to move free from pain and to live independently. Yet arthritis is often dismissed as an inevitable part of ageing or shrugged off as ‘just a bit of arthritis’. We don’t think that this is okay. Versus Arthritis is here to change that.  

Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process we will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults. 