Community Family Support Volunteer – Biddulph
- Volunteering
- Impermanent
- Part Time
- Cooperative
Do you want to help disabled and neurodivergent children and their families who may be struggling to live their lives to their full potential?
You can help us by providing family support in your local community
About Caudwell Children
Established in 2000, Caudwell Children is a national charity that works to transform the lives of disabled children and their families, enabling them to challenge the barriers they face throughout childhood by providing practical and emotional support. The Charity is going through an exciting period of growth having recently opened a new state-of-the-art facility for multi-disciplinary therapy programmes for childhood disability and research of neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, within the grounds of Keele University. It provides a state-of-the-art base for the Charity’s therapies and an environment where ground-breaking research can be undertaken, potentially changing the way some disabilities are treated, and affecting millions of people around the world. This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-moving Charity at a time when it will attract national and international attention.
What will you be doing?
- Gathering information about family needs in person at local family hubs
- Supporting families in accessing useful information and connecting them with services.
- Researching and maintaining a directory of local community support services and groups.
- Identifying and attending community outreach/family engagement events to raise awareness of services in the local area.
- Providing emotional support to families
What skills would be useful?
- Good interpersonal skills
- A good level of written and verbal communication
- A good level of computer literacy
- A good eye for detail
- Experience supporting disabled or neurodivergent children
- Experience supporting families in health and social care sector
What’s in it for you?
- Relevant training, mentoring and support will be provided
- Gain experience to add on to your CV
- Utilise your skills and learn new ones
- Social opportunities
- Access to wellbeing support
- Out of pocket travel expenses can be reimbursed
- We strive to make reasonable adjustments and improve accessibility
Location:
Staffordshire Moorlands Family Hub, Albert Street, Biddulph, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire ST8 6DT
Age limit:
18
Schedule / How much time are you expected to give and when?:
For the role to be mutually beneficial, we hope for volunteers to volunteer for 6 months.
The 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month 9:am – 12:30 (possibly of weekly sessions tbc)
Find out more:
Email volunteer@caudwellchildren.com or visit
https://www.caudwellchildren.com/volunteer/
Find out more:
We can provide reasonable adjustments from the point of you applying, through recruitment, onboarding to supporting you in your volunteer role.
Please contact us to find out more.