Peer Moderator Volunteer My Community
We are seeking someone to join our Living Well team to help as a Volunteer Moderator for our My Community Forum. The role is perfect for anyone hoping to expand their online technical support skills or share their web-based forum usability experience with the charity. An understanding or awareness of mental health issues in general and in relation to living with HIV is a desired skill.
You can expect to do tasks such as providing one-to-one support on the Forums' day-to-day use, identifying inappropriate posts and, where appropriate, any deletions, bans or warnings. You may also provide information on other voluntary or statutory agencies, including THT services which may benefit people living with HIV and related conditions.
Our Volunteers Moderators provide some emotional and social support based on lived experience. Our new volunteers should be people living with HIV so that they may give advice on how to manage HIV as a long-term condition. Ideally, we would like someone to dedicate two hours per week, but this is flexible and will be discussed and agreed with your volunteer manager. A DBS check is required.
As this is a peer support role, supporting people living with HIV, these roles are only suitable for individuals with lived experience of HIV
Interviews planned for 7-10 May
The organisation
Terrence Higgins Trust was set up in 1982 following the death of its namesake, Terry Higgins, who was one of the very first people to die of an AIDS-related illness in the UK. As an organisation we are always aiming to ensure we are always meeting the needs of people affected by HIV and poor sexual health.
A courageous organisation
We were formed in 1982 following the death of Terry Higgins, one of the very first to die from an AIDS-related illness in the UK. Since then, we’ve acted boldly and passionately to meet the challenges of this ever-changing epidemic. Now as the UK’s leading HIV and sexual health charity, we are looking to take new, innovative steps to drive forward our ambition.
An ambitious organisation
We are working to end HIV transmission in the UK by 2030, help people to live with HIV and improve the nation’s sexual health. It’s a critical moment - for the first time our goals are within reach. We are working together with our beneficiaries and partners to make the end of HIV transmission a reality.
A people organisation
Terrence Higgins Trust is its people- our service users are central to our organisation and the services we provide, at the core of our organisation, driving how we work, where we work and what we do. Our talented staff create innovative and engaging programmes, many of whom are also living with HIV. We know that equity, diversity and inclusion are critical to the work we do. We are striving to be an anti-racist, anti-sexist organisation and are committed to having a workforce with people from different backgrounds.