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Do you have two hours a week to spare?
Want to get back into work?
Would you thrive from working directly with Children and Families in need?
When you volunteer with one of our childrens services, you will be helping the UKs most disadvantaged children & young people in the most direct way possible.
To become a volunteer with Home-Start ALL you need is a desire to help and 2 hours a week to spare and we'll give you all the training and support you need
Role description
Following a selection interview, checks and preparation training home visiting volunteers are carefully matched with a family at a time that suits them. The volunteer will visit the family each week for a couple of hours, usually in the family’s home and/or surrounding community. How volunteers help is really down to the family – some may need someone to talk to, others may need more practical help with getting out, meal planning and cooking, playing with the children or finding out about local services. All we ask is that volunteers do not look after the children without the parent being present, do not do regular housework for the family, do not carry out intimate care or healthcare and do not take the family in their own car.
In a nutshell volunteers may:
What skills and experience do volunteers need?
Home-Start Manchester welcomes volunteers of all ages and backgrounds. A volunteer may be a natural parent, a foster, adoptive or step parent or an older sibling who has taken on the parental role. A volunteer may not have parenting experience but lots of professional experience of working with children or families or other relevant experience. Volunteers do not need specific qualifications, but they do need the ability to:
All volunteers are carefully recruited and selected, and prepared before being matched with a family. Volunteers must commit to completing the 6 module, 3 day Course of Preparation, annual safeguarding refresher training and other additional training.
Volunteers must also commit to 6 weekly Supervision and completion of weekly diary sheets which document their visits.
All prospective volunteers must fill in an application form, provide two references and agree to an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service, as well as attending a selection interview.
What can volunteers expect from Home-Start?
We aim to treat all volunteers with respect and undertake our responsibilities to them fairly and recognise that each offers their own unique qualities and has their own needs for support. We will ensure volunteers have: