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Data de início: 01-10-2013

Data de fim: 30-09-2014

Vagas: 1

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 31-08-2013

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. In addition to the main EVS placement there are secondary placements on offer in the local community. One in a non-residential project similar to The Grove called Moving Forward – at this project volunteers can be involved with drop-in sessions, cultural cooking and general advice sessions for example. A recent EVS volunteer work-shadowed someone from the local social services for a day a week helping him with his youth involvement in sports programme.
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. The volunteers receive regular supervision sessions and are allocated a mentor so they have two points of contact whilst at the project. Wherever applicable all volunteers are invited to attend our Central Training courses

Perfil: We would like volunteers who have an interest in working with young homeless people in the UK. We advertise the vacancies on www.youthnetworks.eu website and get many applications through this or the SOS for EVS Database website.
As the European Programmes Manager I short list those young people I think have a true interest in our field of work (not just wanting to come to UK/learn English as their primary motivation) and I give this short list to the projects where we have a vacancy. The staff team at the project then meet to go through the applications and then they select the 3 candidates that they would like. I then approach the volunteers in order of preference from the project selection to see if they are still available for our projects and process from there.
In our EVS roles it is very important that the volunteer is matched as well as we can, a young person who is not interested in this difficult client group will find it a very difficult placement. Because of this we try our best at selection stage to invite people who have an idea about what they will be expected to do and the people we work with.
Skills wise we do not have any specific requirements apart from basic English langugage and feel that an enthusastic person who is interested in working with our young people does not need any prior training, though someone who has at least met this group before or done some sort of youth work will be better equipped when they arrive but we will not exclude those who haven’t.
Our EVS placements have been running for many years and we are continuallly training our staff and EVS on their roles and responsbilities so as to ensure a good experience for the volunteer but also to avoid job substitution. We welcome applications from volunteers with disabilities.
age: 18 until 30 years old

Tarefas: The role of the EVS volunteer is to 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. The EVS Volunteers are fully integrated into the small staff team and are expected to attend staff meetings and contribute where possible. They are also made to feel part of the Depaul Trust as a whole and invited to any central events and included in the training provision.
The volunteers are expected to work at 35 hour week including any language training and Secondary placements. Possibilites include a range of activities from 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. 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. This also gives the volunteer a greater opportunity to be part of the local community and also to develop new skills and help, and meet, more local people. Therefore, 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. There is great interest from the other local organisations we work with to share in this ‘European Resource’ which we are bringing to the locality, namely Northfleet Youth and Sports Club and Moving Forward.
The wide variety of these tasks will enable the volunteer to develop their informal mentoring skills, active listening and giving of structured support to vulnerable people.
The idea of involving EVS Volunteers is that it is felt that European Volunteers could add a new dimension to the training and development of the Depaul Trust programmes, and also could offer a new element to delivery to disadvantaged young people. We feel that a volunteer could offer something to the young people that staff can not as an intermediary.
Each volunteer with have the possibility to negotiate with their mentor exactly what will be included in their weekly activities. The rest of the Volunteers time on the project, not spent interacting with residents, will be spent on structured project duties, similar to the rest of the staff team. This may include reception and administration tasks, group and individual work with the residents.

Condições: The project and volunteer accomodation are fully risk assessed and we have been hosting EVS Volunteers for over five years. Though whilst working with this client group it is essential that EVS Volunteers adhere to the Depaul Trust policies on professional boundaries and health and safety in the workplace as they can display unpredictable behaviour.
We run an induction on these and other policies before the volunteer starts working at the project. Volunteers are supervised regularly and always work alongside paid staff.

Formação: • 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.

Documentação: Cv e Carta de Motivação em Inglês