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Walsall, United Kingdom
Are you a creative, friendly, open-minded person who wants to gain experience working with Children? Caudwell Children are looking for volunteers to help with our Short Break Activity Sessions! Our Short Break Activity Sessions enable disabled children to access fun, inspirational and challenging leisure activities that build life skills and promote independence whilst providing carers with vital short break respite. With our support, disabled children and young people get to explore their interests, talents and develop vital life skills. Activities can lead to ASDAN accreditation. Short break activities build future hopes and aspirations and provide children with the confidence to achieve their full potential. Roles and Responsibilities: - Assist Caudwell Children staff member(s) in running the short break activity sessions - Help to ensure all children are safe during the activity sessions - Support staff members with planned activities - Participate in setting up an activity and helping with the set down - Communicate and work with the children to ensure they have fun Person Specification: Essential Criteria - Friendly and approachable personality - Punctual and reliable - Experience of working/ volunteering with children - Creative personality Desirable Criteria - Experience of working/ volunteering with children with an additional need - Experience of working/ volunteering in a charity/ third sector - Experience of education or an educational setting This role takes place on weekends only. We suggest a minimum commitment of 6 months for this role - full training and support will be provided.
Date Posted: Aug 3, 2023
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Burton-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Are you a creative, friendly, open-minded person who wants to gain experience working with Children? Caudwell Children are looking for volunteers to help with our Short Break Activity Sessions! Our Short Break Activity Sessions enable disabled children to access fun, inspirational and challenging leisure activities that build life skills and promote independence whilst providing carers with vital short break respite. With our support, disabled children and young people get to explore their interests, talents and develop vital life skills. Activities can lead to ASDAN accreditation. Short break activities build future hopes and aspirations and provide children with the confidence to achieve their full potential. Roles and Responsibilities: - Assist Caudwell Children staff member(s) in running the short break activity sessions - Help to ensure all children are safe during the activity sessions - Support staff members with planned activities - Participate in setting up an activity and helping with the set down - Communicate and work with the children to ensure they have fun Person Specification: Essential Criteria - Friendly and approachable personality - Punctual and reliable - Experience of working/ volunteering with children - Creative personality Desirable Criteria - Experience of working/ volunteering with children with an additional need - Experience of working/ volunteering in a charity/ third sector - Experience of education or an educational setting This role takes place on weekends only. We suggest a minimum commitment of 6 months for this role - full training and support will be provided.
Date Posted: Aug 3, 2023
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Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom
Are you a reliable, empathetic, tech-savvy individual with an eye for detail? Caudwell Children are looking for friendly and professional volunteers to help with our Service Delivery Department. The Service Delivery Department is responsible for ensuring the beneficiaries of the charity receive high quality services. We offer services to children and support to families, including: - Advice and signposting to local services (available to individuals anywhere in the UK), - We accept applications for and (subject to a set of financial criteria) will contribute funding towards some specific therapies, provision of resources such as specialist wheelchairs, car seats, tricycles, sensory stimulating equipment and sports equipment - We have specialist autism services and accept referrals to assess and diagnose autism in 4 to 11 year olds and provide information, workshops and advice to families with a child with autism - We have an employment service for autistic young people up to age 25 years to support the transition into the digital skills workforce. As a volunteer in our Service Delivery department, roles and responsibilities may include: - Providing practical and emotional support to children and their families across the country - Processing and completing applications for specialist equipment, therapies and treatment - Data inputting onto our metro system - Providing an information and signposting service - Communication with other organisations via telephone and email - Meeting and greeting visitors (including visitor sign in) - Answering telephone/ email enquiries - Monitoring our online chat service ensuring families receive the support that they need We’re looking for somebody approachable, dedicated and responsible, with a good level of written and verbal communication, and telephone and computer literacy. If you’re interested in gaining administration, communication and IT experience, and want to know that you’re helping the families of disabled children across the UK, please apply!
Date Posted: Aug 3, 2023
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Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom
Are you a reliable, empathetic, tech-savvy individual with an eye for detail? Caudwell Children are looking for friendly and professional volunteers to help with our Service Delivery Department. The Service Delivery Department is responsible for ensuring the beneficiaries of the charity receive high quality services. We offer services to children and support to families, including: - Advice and signposting to local services (available to individuals anywhere in the UK), - We accept applications for and (subject to a set of financial criteria) will contribute funding towards some specific therapies, provision of resources such as specialist wheelchairs, car seats, tricycles, sensory stimulating equipment and sports equipment - We have specialist autism services and accept referrals to assess and diagnose autism in 4 to 11 year olds and provide information, workshops and advice to families with a child with autism - We have an employment service for autistic young people up to age 25 years to support the transition into the digital skills workforce. As a volunteer in our Service Delivery department, roles and responsibilities may include: - Providing practical and emotional support to children and their families across the country - Processing and completing applications for specialist equipment, therapies and treatment - Data inputting onto our metro system - Providing an information and signposting service - Communication with other organisations via telephone and email - Meeting and greeting visitors (including visitor sign in) - Answering telephone/ email enquiries - Monitoring our online chat service ensuring families receive the support that they need We’re looking for somebody approachable, dedicated and responsible, with a good level of written and verbal communication, and telephone and computer literacy. If you’re interested in gaining administration, communication and IT experience, and want to know that you’re helping the families of disabled children across the UK, please apply!
Date Posted: Aug 3, 2023
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Tamworth, United Kingdom
Are you a creative, friendly, open-minded person who wants to gain experience working with Children? Caudwell Children are looking for volunteers to help with our Short Break Activity Sessions! Our Short Break Activity Sessions enable disabled children to access fun, inspirational and challenging leisure activities that build life skills and promote independence whilst providing carers with vital short break respite. With our support, disabled children and young people get to explore their interests, talents and develop vital life skills. Activities can lead to ASDAN accreditation. Short break activities build future hopes and aspirations and provide children with the confidence to achieve their full potential. Roles and Responsibilities: - Assist Caudwell Children staff member(s) in running the short break activity sessions - Help to ensure all children are safe during the activity sessions - Support staff members with planned activities - Participate in setting up an activity and helping with the set down - Communicate and work with the children to ensure they have fun Person Specification: Essential Criteria - Friendly and approachable personality - Punctual and reliable - Experience of working/ volunteering with children - Creative personality Desirable Criteria - Experience of working/ volunteering with children with an additional need - Experience of working/ volunteering in a charity/ third sector - Experience of education or an educational setting This role takes place on weekends only. We suggest a minimum commitment of 6 months for this role - full training and support will be provided.
Date Posted: Aug 3, 2023
