Do you have parenting experience and some spare time? Would you like to help a local family with young children?
We are currently recruiting for Home Visiting Volunteers
To apply, please send us a completed Volunteer Application Form Nov 20 as soon as possible and we will contact you to arrange an interview.
The aim of the training course is to prepare new volunteers for their role of working with families on a face-to-face basis and to explore how we can bring about better outcomes for children. We hope to offer the sessions in person as restrictions allow and a venue will be confirmed in due course, but if necessary we will revert to online delivery.
The course will be as follows with sessions running 9.30-2.30. We anticipate that volunteers will attend all sessions.
Session 1: Tuesday 25th Jan 2022
Session 2: 01st February
Session 3: 08th February
Session 4: 15th February
Session 5: 01st March
Session 6: 08th March
What do Home-Start volunteers do?
Home-Start volunteers aim to build the confidence and independence of a family by:
What is the time commitment?
In addition to weekly family contact (approx. 1.5-2 hours per week)
Please complete and return the attached form and we will contact you to arrange a time to talk further about the role and the training we are offering. It would be helpful if you could get the form back to us as soon as possible to give us the time to do this.