Reino Unido

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Data de início: 03-09-2013

Data de fim: 02-09-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 14-04-2013

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 150 €

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Resumo: Our organization supports homeless young people (16 – 25 yrs old) by giving them somewhere to live and support to access training and employment opportunities.

The project has 9 full time members of staff and EVS Volunteers. The manager and the staff team are directly involved with the volunteers, the staff as mentors and the manager as line manager.

Like all of our accomodation projects 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 or their own accomodation. The project offers these young people social and, in some cases, educational and practical 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.

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: - interest in working with young homeless people in the UK
- interest in our field of work
- age: 18 until 30 years old

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, helping someone to fill in a benefits form to helping a resident paint their bedroom.

- helping in promoting independence in a group who are currently dependent

- Whilst with us we also encourage volunteers to find a Secondary Project as well as supporting them in developing their own project, thereby improving their organisational and development skills.

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

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV e carta de motivação em inglês