I work as a therapuetic assessor, I give 50 minutes appts to clients, assessing them for counselling and groups such as self esteem or anger management. It also involves carrying out a risk assessment and means I can have to involve other agencies if someone is presenting as a risk to themselves or others.
Bernie I have been open with the fact that I am also a service user and my manager told me that plenty of people who volunteer or who work for Mind have personal experience either as a service user or a carer.
At my branch there are over 80 volunteers in 27 roles.