Alemanha

1025

Data de início: 01-09-2012

Data de fim: 01-09-2013

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-01-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The association is an officially recognized retirement home and offers 12 twin and 89 single room appartments for inpatient care and assisted living. Two places are reserved for short-term care, if required additional places can be offered. On workdays from 8:00 h to 16:00 h the Home offers in addition geriatric day care for senior citizens from the town of Neustadt and its surroundings. In a special department the clients get a suitable therapeutical assistance and support. Relatives and honorary collaborators have the opportunity to contribute to these activities. The sheltered housing estate for the elderly "Hangenwies" offers autonomous living in particular appartments without abandoning the nursing system in case of necessity. The Residential Home provides social services and ensures emergency care. The technical service handles caretaking.
The twin town of Titisee-Neustadt is situated in the southwest of Germany, in the Blck Forest, not far from the university town Freiburg in the border triangle between Germany, Switzerland and France. The former village of Titisee is situated at an altitude between 780 and 1.192 meters above sea level at the northern bank of the lake Titisee, near the Feldberg, the highest summit of the Black Forest. It's the largest natural lake of the Black Forest and attracts about 2 million tourist every year. The township of Neustadt is located five kilometres in the east of the lake Titisee. At present the community of Neustadt and it's incorporated villages have altogether about 12.000 inhabitants. Neustadt is hourly connected with the towns of Freiburg and Donaueschingen through the Hell Valley Railway. There is a well developed bus traffic system to touristic centres of the higher Black Forest..

Perfil: Volunteers should have a basic knowledge of German and have an interest in, and willingness to work with older and partly gerontopsychiatric disordered people. It's necessary for volunteers to be sociable and outgoing, to have enthusiasm, and to be open to foreign cultures. They should be able to interact well with groups of people. An enthusiastic, responsible and flexible attitude towards the work is important. Volunteers should be willing to learn new skills and share own experince with others, be able to work as a team and contribute to the process and be open to new ideas and be flexible to work in a variety of settings. Language learning should not be the first or only motivation to make a voluntary service in this project. Since the project is situated in a small town, the volunteer must be fully aware of the geographical and social implication of the projects location.

Tarefas: The assignment of European Volunteers will not substitute a regular job in this project. The activities of a volunteer should expand and deepen the exisingt geriatric care facilities. The volunteer should enrich the geriatric care activities with new ideas and perspectives.Volunteers will work mainly in the geriatric day care centre, where older people from Waldkirch and its surroundings are looked after on workdays from 8:00 to 17:00 h.
Volunteers will be actively involved in the development of the day program of occupational therapy. Volunteers could develop their own ideas for new games, activities or stories into a personal project if they so wished - creative ideas are always welcome. The remaining of volunteers time will be spent in helping with other aspects of work at the centre as well as planning activities and courses. The volunteer will also be required to attend team meetings to report and co-ordinate resources.
Volunteers are expected to accomplish a fulltime voluntary service of 35-hours per week, overdoing ill be balanced by additional freetime.
At request of the volunteer and upon approval of the sending organisation and the National Agency it will be possible to work in other departments of the host organisation like housekeeping, kitchen, caretaking, reception or administration. In particular in the beginning the volunteer will pass through all departments of the retirement home to familiarize himself/herself with the structure and the functioning of the organisation (not longer than 3 weeks).

Condições: The organization provides continuous monitoring, including easy access to the contact person (Tutor), regular dialog with the volunteers, in which the options for personal development and the interests of the volunteer are being discussed.
Volunteers will be informed about their rights, regulations in the host organization, consequences of unacceptable behaviour.
To prevent crises from occurring in the first place, volunteers will be given any training necessary for them to carry out their tasks. In terms of risk and crisis prevention it is very important to keep all persons involved in the project informed to be able to act immediately in the case of a crisis.
However if problems occur, volunteers have different people to contact and discuss problems with. The different people are pro-active in seeking area of concern and actively finding solutions to the issues arising.The line manager of the nursing service is on hand daily for problems, the director of the hosting organisation is accessible for volunteers every day and the co-ordinator is available by e-mail and phone at every time but meets the volunteers weekly or biweekly during language training.
Weekly volunteers can meet during language training participants from other EVS-projects from the region to exchange experiences.Volunteers wil have the opportunity to stay in contact with their family and sending organization via e-mail or telephone at least on a weekly basis

Formação: During their voluntary service the volunteers will get non-formal qualifications as well as key qualifications in the areas of character-building and social and linguistic skills. They get to know different ways of life and learn to deal with people with disabilities, as well as with different themes. They learn how to work with elderly and partly gerontopsychiatric disordered persons and learn organisational structures of daily care for elderly people and how to find their place in it.
The volunteers are put into a team of employees and are treated as a fully-fledged team member. They learn how to get along with colleagues, bosses and roommates and to handle the sensibilities of intimacy and distance in the workplace.

The volunteer can take part in a language training for European Volunteers arranged by the coordinating organisation. The aim of the language training is the command of oral every day speech with a special focus on the terminology of social care. Through language training the volunteer should be enabled to manage typical situations of daily life they will be confronted with during their voluntary service.
Apart from language learning the language training serves as a weekly meeting for European Volunteers from several EVS projects situated in the region. Every month a day of studies will be organised vor the volunteers, where the volunteers can seek advise for their choice of occupations in future, meet counselors from universities and colleges, visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg, go on excursions, or take part in cultural events. The content of this program will be discussed by the group and participation is left up to the volunteers.

Documentação: CV, Carta de Motivação e Application form.

Download: EVS-questionnaire_Steinbeis.doc