Estónia

8044

Data de início: 13-10-2018

Data de fim: 13-08-2019

Vagas: 1

Duração: 10 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 02-10-2018

Financiamento: Aprovado

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 85 €

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Resumo: The centre has 35 children with special needs, other centre with 24 adults` with special needs and adults' centre for 43 persons between 18 and 50 years of age. Activities at the day care centre are meant to support and empower different abilities (physical, cognitive, communicative, social and everyday skills) of the client to increase his or her ability to cope and participate in everyday life to the fullest extent possible. The main goal of the Day care Centre is to offer different developmental activities for children with special needs. To achieve this it is important to create a safe and meaningful environment where each child is considered as an individual. Furthermore it is necessary to consider the child mental, physical and emotional development and to regard and each one as a whole. The teaching and developmental activities we offer are all based on individual study plans

Perfil: Volunteer should be motivated to work with people with severe disabilities. Volunteers should be able to think independently, have sense of responsibility and be with calm nature. Basic English is required.
Age: 18-30

Tarefas: Role and tasks of the volunteers.Volunteer will work as an assistant of social pedagogues with mentally and multiply disabled adult clients in the day care center Käo. There are different groups working at the center which are managed by professional social pedagogues. In one group there is maximum 5-8 clients at the same time. Groups are both in Estonian and in Russian. The volunteer will work in close relation with the social pedagogues and other specialists in the center.
Tasks:
- supporting clients while they are doing their work activities according to their work plan and individual plan of activities (housing works, cleaning rooms,washing dishes, preparing food, handicraft, works in art field etc). While participating with clients at their everyday activities and work activities they helpthem to develop/maintain/support: -to practise and learn everyday skills needed for everyday life (hygiene, taking care of themselves – clothing, washing themselves, eating etc);- to develop/maintain motor skills;- to develop communication skills (increasing the personal vocabulary if possible, adapted signs for expressChildren centre:There is 36 severely mentally and multiple disabled children between the ages of 7 and 18 (school age). At the day care centre for children there are 6 groups, each having a maximum of 6 children. Staff in each group consists one teacher and three assistants (educators). In day care centre, the activities are meant to support and develop the different abilities (physical, cognitive, communicative, social and life skills) of the client to stimulate and increase their ability to cope and participate in everyday life as much as possible.

All children in our centre are with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. Most of them do not talk. Which means that the children are not using speech for communication. Some children use simplified sign language, some use photos or other pictures (pcs pictures etc) for communication. There are classes for autistic children in our house and some children are with profound vision disability. Volunteer will have opportunity to work with different children and get ideas of different disabilities and ways of seeing the world.

Volunteer will also have opportunity to see the work of different specialists (music therapist, physical therapist etc.).

Volunteer will work mostly side by side with assistants (educators). So he/she will have the chance to work under the supervision of experienced social workers. Volunteer will also have good opportunity to learn great deal about mentally and physically handicapped children. Tasks of volunteer will be:- helping children in their lessons, - helping them on dressing and eating and on leisure time time activities (play with them, walk with them, sing with them etc.).- volunteer is very welcome to find new ways to organize the leisure time for children, to organize parties etc. Working time: volunteer will work 5 days per week and 6 to 7 hours a day. Occasionally some of the activities take place also on the weekends and the volunteers are expected to help. In these cases it will be arranged, that they can get their given free time later. All the changes in normal schedules will be agreed with the volunteers. Volunteer will have two extra free days per one service month.Holidays will be agreed with hosting and coordinating organisation.Volunteer will received food money in the beginning of every month and will be responsible for arranging meals by herself. Together with food money, volunteer also receives their pocket money. Volunteer will have personal Estonian bank account and food and pocket money will be transferred to the account.

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV + Motivation Letter + Application Form

Download: evs-form-2018.doc