Involvement Support Volunteer

Time commitment: Flexible – research project meetings are held online and last around 1-2 hours, with an additional 1–2 hours preparation and follow up.
Travel: No travel, online sessions using Microsoft Teams or Zoom.

Are you enthusiastic, compassionate and keen to expand and develop your skills while helping others? Do you have a caring, sensitive and supportive approach?

We are currently recruiting Involvement Support Volunteers in the location(s) listed below. We would love you to volunteer with us!

About the role

Once we give money to support a research project, we check in with the team to see how things are doing with involving people with lived experience. Sometimes, they need a bit of help and support. As an Involvement Support Volunteer, you’ll help by giving advice to these researchers about including people who have arthritis in their work.

Working with a fellow volunteer to prepare and deliver advice sessions
Giving personalised support and signposting
Drafting and sharing reports on the challenges identified and advice you have provided.

Download the role profile for an Involvement Support Volunteer (99KB).

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:

Involvement Support Volunteer (121) online role in the UK.

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. 