Reino Unido

2926

Data de início: 01-09-2013

Data de fim: 31-08-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 15-04-2013

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 150 €

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Resumo: The host project supports homeless six young people (16 – 21 yrs old) by giving them somewhere to live and support to access training and employment opportunities.
The project has 2 full time members of staff and usually 2 EVS Volunteers. Both the staff are directly involved with the volunteers as this is a small and close knit project.

The young people at the project are homeless and unemployed when they arrive and our aim is to support them to the stage where they can move on to a residential project with less intensive support. The project offers these young people social and, in some cases, educational support.

We aim to help these young people develop the life skills to be more independent and the communication skills to function in mainstream society.
The EVS volunteers work along side our current team of staff and local volunteers to enable the young people to access all the opportunities open to them and to ensure they reach their full potential.

Learning opportunities:

• Basic social work skills – working with disadvantaged youth in the UK
• A deep knowledge and, hopefully, non-judgemental understanding of this specific client group.
• How to be an active member of a community – particularly the wider community when doing secondary placements.
• How to support someone who is very vulnerable.
• How to interact and integrate in a new culture
• How to develop their communication and listening skills, particularly in English
• Professional boundaries between vulnerable people and helpers
• Gain a basic understanding of Social Work in the UK
• Hopefully a wide range of skills that will help them in their future careers and with their employability.

Perfil: - age: 18 until 30 years old
- interest in working with young homeless people in the UK
- basic English langugage
- interested in working with our young people

Tarefas: - support the young people at this hostel, by acting as advocates and role models encouraging them to engage in the training and life skills opportunities that are available.

- helping residents to shop for and cook a meal, engaging residents in training courses, accompanying a resident to a doctors’ appointment, running a language course in their own language, befriending new residents to helping someone to fill in a benefits form.

- All the activities will be around promoting independence in a group who are currently dependent

- volunteers will have the opportunity if for example they are particularly interested in cooking and wish to run a cookery course in the hostel, with the full support of the staff team and their mentor.

Horário: The volunteers are expected to work at 35 hour week including any language training and Secondary placements.

Documentação: CV e carta de motivação em inglês