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Home-Visiting Volunteer
Job summary
A community support organization in Kettering is seeking volunteers to assist families with young children. Volunteers will offer emotional support, practical help, and engage with children through play. A commitment to attend a preparation course is required. This role provides flexible timing with ongoing support and training offered.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Skills in listening, caring, and providing non-judgmental support are essential.
- Attending a preparation course for 5/6 weeks is required.
Responsibilities
- Visiting families at home once a week for 2-3 hours.
- Offering emotional support to help parents cope.
- Playing with children and engaging in fun activities.
- Providing practical assistance with budgeting and shopping.
- Encouraging parents to attend family groups and social activities.
- Helping parents access parenting advice and training.
Skills
Home-Start helps families with young children deal with whatever life throws at them. We support parents as they learn to cope, improve their confidence and build better lives for their children. The benefits of our support include improved health and well-being and better family relationships.
Our volunteers visit the family’s home for a couple of hours every week. They tailor-make their support to the needs of the parents and children. Volunteers are very committed and will keep visiting until the parents feel they can stand on their own two feet. Parents and volunteers often develop a deeply trusting relationship which can lead to powerful change within the family.
- Visiting families at home once a week for 2-3 hours for as long as the family needs them.
- Offering emotional support to help parents find ways of coping.
- Playing with children, listening, reading, having fun together.
- Providing practical help – with budgeting, shopping, cooking and getting to appointments.
- Encouraging parents to get out and about – to family groups and other social activities.
- Helping parents access parenting advice and parenting skills training such as Health Visitors or Children’s Centres.
- A Home-Start Volunteer supports families until they have the confidence to stand on their own two feet again and pass on that confidence to their children.
- Skills: Listening, Caring, Non-Judgemental.
- Will need to attend a preparation course for 5/6 weeks, 10am - 2.30pm, lunch included. Courses run twice a year.
- Accessibility
- Age restrictions
- Health and Safety Policy
- Ongoing support
- Training provided
- Volunteers covered by insurance
- When do I need to be available?
- Monday – Sunday: Morning, Afternoon, Evening availability varies by day (see preferences below)
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
- Sat
- Sun
- Morning: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
- Afternoon: Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
- Evening: No No No No No No No
Ongoing
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