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Family Support Signposting Volunteer
- Volunteering
- Impermanent
- Part Time
- Cooperative
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.
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:
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 Family Support signposting department, roles and responsibilities may include:
- Providing practical and emotional support to children and their families across the country
- Researching charities and organisations that can provide certain, funding and equipment to signpost families to in the health and social care sector
- Data inputting onto our metro system
- Providing an information and signposting service
- Answering telephone/ email enquiries
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 social care experience, and want to know that you’re helping the families of disabled children across the UK, please apply!
Person Specification
Essential Criteria:
- Good standard of written and verbal communication
- Attention to detail
- Computer literate
- Friendly and approachable
- Ability to extract meaningful information from a source and communicate effectively
Desirable Criteria:
- Previous experience of working/volunteering in a charity or third sector organisation
- Understanding of a CQC regulated service
Locations:
Caudwell International Children’s Centre (CICC)
Age limit:
16+
Schedule:
Minimum of 3 hours per week
Find out more:
Email volunteer@caudwellchildren.com or visit https://www.caudwellchildren.com/volunteer/