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Data de início: 02-01-2012

Data de fim: 02-12-2012

Vagas: 1

Duração: 11 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 02-05-2011

Financiamento: Candidatura

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 150 €

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Resumo: "Fethneys is a community residential care home that offers accommodation and support for up to 10 young adults with disabilities. The services offered aim to empower and enable the service users to live as independent lives as possible, with the goal of living in their own home in the future.
Fethneys is based in the seaside town of Worthing on the South Coast of England. Worthing has many of the local amenities associated with a small town including a library, shops, cinema, leisure centre etc. Worthing has good transport links to nearby Brighton and to other towns and cities in the UK.
Fethneys provide accommodation for EVS volunteers that is separate from the main service but within waking distance. Volunteers will each have their own bedroom and share kitchen, bathroom and communal areas with other volunteers.
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Perfil: "Fethneys is looking to host volunteers who have a genuine interest in the work of the organisation and an affinity with its aims and ethos. It is also important that volunteers are keen to work with adults with disabilities. Volunteers should be sociable and outgoing, and due to the nature of the work they should be flexible and enjoy working with people from different background from their own.
Volunteer recruitment is undertaken through ICYE-UK (coordinating organisation) who will advertise free vacancies through established and wider European networks. ICYE-UK will receive and process the applications and check the formal criteria (age, nationality, duration of the project etc.) and carry out the first stage of the selection process. The final selection of the volunteers will then be made by the regional coordinator and Fethneys staff on the basis of interests and motivation. ICYE-UK and Fethneys are open to working with any partner sending organisation, not just those within our existing networks and are committed to making these placements available to people from all backgrounds.

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Tarefas: "The experience of volunteering at Fethneys will allow for young people's personal and social development while offering volunteers the opportunity to learn more, not only, about UK culture but also their own. Through their voluntary service it is aimed that each volunteer should learn more about themselves while developing independent living skills.
The focus of the role at Fethneys enables volunteers to gain a greater knowledge and understanding of the issues facing people with disabilities. Learning to see the individual and their abilities rather than their disabilities.
The expected learning opportunities for volunteers include gaining experience and/or skills in the following areas:
"" Social work & different methodologies in the field of disability: Through the general volunteer role and the work of the organisation as a whole, volunteers will gain a deeper understanding and awareness in this area.
"" Communication skills: through interaction with the staff and other volunteers and in particular through working closely with the service users.
"" Teamwork skills: through living and working within the volunteer team, with the staff team, as part of the wider ICYE volunteer team.
"" Intercultural awareness: By living and working in an intercultural setting, meeting young people from the UK and across the globe.
"" Organisational skills: organising recreational activities for service users, through working with the rotas of the service and the individual service users programmes.
Fethneys is committed to providing training for EVS volunteers to enable them to carry out their role but also to improve their own skills and to allow for access to and involvement with as many aspects of the service's work as possible.
Each of the service users at Fethneys has their own individual programme that they are encouraged to develop according to their own personal interests. EVS volunteers will actively support the service users, with an emphasis on engaging volunteers and service users together in an educational and recreational context. The presence and the activities of the volunteer allows the service users a far higher level of access to the wider community than might otherwise have been possible.
The role can include supporting service users in creative, educational or recreational activities. This could be through games, arts/crafts activities etc that take place at Fethneys or accessing activities, cinema visits, educational opportunities, social events etc. outside of the service. Within the role, volunteers can develop their own skills while assisting the service users to develop the life skills needed to be able to live more independent lives. For example, volunteers can help the service users to further develop their abilities in cooking, doing household chores and attending college.

EVS volunteers are encouraged to share their own interests, as a way of developing their own role and also to allow the service users to benefit from volunteers individual skills and knowledge. For example where a volunteer has a particular interest/skills in music, sport or art they will be encouraged to share this with the residents, perhaps arranging classes or an activity for the residents
Additionally EVS volunteers will be actively encouraged to share their own culture, for example through holding an intercultural event or introducing service users and staff at Fethneys to traditional food or dress from the volunteers home country etc. This allows for a positive interaction between the volunteers and service users and brings an important and unique intercultural dimension to the work of the organisation.
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Documentação: CV e Carta de Motivação