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Home Visiting Volunteer
We are looking for someone with parenting or childcare experience to support families..
2 hrs / week
Flexible
Home-Start provides support, friendship & practical help to families with children from pregnancy up to 12 years of age. Volunteers are essential in helping to improve family life in many ways, such as;
- Supporting children's learning
- Helping to develop healthy lifestyles
- Supporting to access the local community and its services
- Improving isolation/ low mood/poor mental health
- Supporting routines and boundaries as well as promoting positive behaviour strategies
- Relationship difficulties
- Demands of multiple birth
- Disability and illness
- Dads perinatal mental health and wellbeing
All families have different needs and we help the family to identify these needs before matching them with a volunteer that will provide the best possible support.
All our volunteers...
•Attend a course of preparation
•Receive regular support, both during the course and after, when they are supporting a family
•Are offered the opportunity to attend on-going training and social events throughout the year
•All volunteers are given an individual learning plan to support the transition into further education or the workplace.
Expenses
All volunteers receive all out-of-pocket expenses incurred whilst volunteering for and training with Home-StartDeadline: Tue 31st December, 2024