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Children’s Activity Assistant Volunteer
- Volunteering
- Impermanent
- Part Time
- Cooperative
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!
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.
Outline of role:
Our Short Break Activity Sessions enable disabled children aged 8 to 18 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, and talents and develop vital life skills. Short break activities build future hopes and aspirations and provide children with the confidence to achieve their full potential.
Volunteer responsibilities include:
- 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.
Locations:
- Newcastle: CICC ST5 5NT
- Staffordshire Moorlands: Bradnop Village Hall, ST13 7ND
- Tamworth: St Peters Church B77 2HH
- Burton: Queens street Community Centre DE14 3LW
- Cannock: Cheslyn Hey Community Hall WS6 7ED
- Lichfield: Whittington Village Hall WS14 9LR
- Stafford: Brocton Village Hall
Age limit:
18+
Schedule:
Weekends & school holidays (Newcastle Under Lyme or Congleton)
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.