Recruiting and managing Volunteers

Find out how to successfully recruit, manage and retain volunteers.

Effective recruitment and management of volunteers is becoming increasingly important within homelessness services. This course will help you to ensure that your volunteers are equipped to deliver the best possible standards of client service.

What will you learn

By the end of the course you will:

• have explored the needs of your organisation in relation to volunteers
• know how to improve and develop volunteer projects
• be able to place advertisements for volunteers and design role descriptions
• be able to plan an effective volunteer recruitment campaign
• know how to recruiting and inducting volunteers effectivly
• be able to produce, and have the necessary content for, a volunteer induction handbook
• know how your organisation can take steps to retain volunteers
• understand good practice in training and managing volunteers
• be aware of the legal issues around working with volunteers

who is this course for?

This course is aimed at staff and managers who are new to volunteer management.

dURATION

One day course

in-house training COSTS

This course can be booked in-house for a team of up to 16
Members: £770
Non members: £1,100

how to book this course

To book this course in-house please complete this booking form:
www.homeless.org.uk/in-house-training-booking-form

Alternatively contact the training team:
t: 020 7840 4450
e: training@homelesslink.org.uk