Job Opportunity – Family and Volunteer Coordinator
Home-Start is the UK’s leading family support charity. We are a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under the age of five. Locally recruited and trained volunteers offer regular support, friendship, and practical help to families under stress in their own homes to prevent family crisis and breakdown.
Do you share our passion for supporting families with young children?
Do you have brilliant people skills and experience in early years, family support or community work?
If so, we’d love to hear from you.
Home-Start Chichester & District are recruiting now for the post of a Family and Volunteer Coordinator. The coordinator will build strong relationships with our families, working with them to identify their needs, match them to a trained volunteer and regularly review progress. They will provide support, supervision and ongoing training to existing volunteers and support with the recruitment and training new volunteers. They will organise and support with the running of our Family Groups.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our small, supportive staff team. We offer a genuinely rewarding and positive work environment, and ongoing opportunities for training and development.
Essential requirements for the role include:
- Experience of working with and supporting children and families
- Knowledge and experience of safeguarding issues
- Experience of managing and running family groups
- Understanding of volunteering
25 hours per week over 4-5 days
Closing date: 31 July 2023
Interviews: week beginning 14 August 2023
Proposed Start Date: week beginning 18 September 2023
HSCD is committed to equality of opportunity and diversity. HSCD is committed to safer recruitment practice and an appointment will be subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.
Application details from Home-Start Chichester & District, Chichester e-mail:
admin@home-startchichester.org.uk
Tel: 01243 773477
