Come work with LifeSIGNS: Trainers Required

Providing Self-Injury Awareness Training is an important way of helping to change society’s assumptions about self-injury / self-harm and to improve the support available to people who self-injure. LifeSIGNS has been a leading provider of self-injury awareness training across the UK for many years, influencing the work of groups including doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals, medical and nursing students, schools, universities, care homes, and charities, just to name a few.

LifeSIGNS is seeking to recruit three new Self-Injury Awareness Trainers so as to keep up with the increasing demand for training about self-injury.

We pride ourselves in delivering Self-Injury Awareness Training from a personal point of view – we’re more interested in discussing the emotional background to self-injury than we are in statistics and scientific descriptions – so you don’t need to be an expert on the issue, but personal experience of self-injury is needed.

It’s a big job, standing in front of a room of people and talking about self-injury – even talking about your own personal experiences – but it’s extremely rewarding to play such an active role in changing people’s attitudes. We will work with you to train you how to deliver our Self-Injury Awareness Training, and work with you to ensure that you’re comfortable and confident in delivering training and answering difficult questions.

LifeSIGNS is run entirely by volunteers, and so we’re asking you to join us as an unpaid volunteer. Your travel expenses will be covered.

If you’re over 18 and are ready to change the world, please download our application and send it to Nick@lifesigns.org.uk

Trainer Application From (Word; 30KB); Right-Click and save to your desktop. Then change the filename to your name.

Interviews will then be conducted in Birmingham and London during June / July. Applicants are welcome from all over the UK as training will be needed all over the UK.

Applicants should be:

• Over 18. LifeSIGNS is a young organisation but we cover all age groups, from 13 to 100.
• Confident and articulate. A certain level of ‘life confidence’ is needed to organise a training session and to talk about self-injury in an open and thorough way.
• Approachable, friendly, and professional. Our trainers are the public faces of LifeSIGNS so it’s very important that you are able to make a good impression of the organisation with trainees.
• Aware of LifeSIGNS’ work and publications. Knowledge about our services and how we talk about things is crucial, but we provide you with all the additional training you need.
• Able to travel, either by car or trains and taxis. Travel Expenses will be covered.
• Able to check emails on a regular basis and understand the importance of diary management / scheduling.