Headway Jersey Ceo
Jersey
Headway Jersey is a great place to help with brain injuryWe provide support, group sessions, cognitive development exercises combining quizzes and class activities with specific motor skill development delivered through individual member improvement plans for example. The post injury exercises include swimming and pilates, quite captivating extremely creative, arty and motivating work for the local Jersey annual Eisteddfod. We have such experienced staff that are able to offer loads of information, time and listening services to people in Jersey who are affected by brain injury themselves or they are carers for others. We are so pleased to chat with friends, families and others who may just want to ask some simple questions as this can be a scary time when things change often quite abruptlyThe time with the members has been fun and humbling seeing how rebuilding a vocabulary changes even over a few sessions or seeing how one person created a tapestry that I would happily enjoy on my wall with such delicacy when a while earlier she was not able to move her left hand... that is why we do all of this, and it is deeply humbling. Thanks for letting me helpIf you simply want to know more or even want to see if this may be a good fit for you to come and help at the centre and/or shop do come and have tea with us. Get a feel for how we work and a feel for the support we offer and see what happens…There are loads of helpers…. minibus drivers, 1:1 companions for sessions, helpers for the classes from the centre, help in the Headway Jersey Shop from serving, preparing, collecting and displaying, events help and ideas as well as a fundraising committee, book-keeping, helping on the board to represent our members and island wide reach, Safeguarding, administration...Worked out with directors that this role needed a full-time commitment not just 16 hours a week and along with Simplicity Limited this was not possible. Will stay involved but on the fringes. Thanks to all