Family Engagement Volunteer

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Role

About the Role:
As a Family Engagement Volunteer, you will assess a family's bed requirement needs, provide emotional support, connect families to resources, advocate for families, support collaboration with partner agencies, monitor and evaluate Zarach families’ progress, promote self-advocacy and empowerment, and ensure confidentiality and privacy.

Skills Required:
- Volunteers with prior experience desired due to the nature of the role. However, if you are the right person for this role then we would be happy to train and support you!
- Experience in either a safeguarding role within family engagement/family support, social services experience or in health and social care backgrounds would be great!
- If you have lived experience of working with vulnerable adults and children, and entering into their homes, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities:
- Be the initial point of contact for the family after referral under the National Family Engagement model to ensure a high-quality and equitable service for all families within your area.
- Visit referred families to complete an initial assessment to aid us in providing the correct beds and gathering initial impact data.
- Refer complex cases to the Family Engagement Officer.
- Record information from the visits and keep the Family Engagement Officer updated.
- To communicate effectively with the Family Engagement and Volunteer Development Team.
- Comply with all health & safety guidance at all times.

As part of the role, you will need to complete:
- Application form
- Safer recruitment interview
- Basic DBS Check
- Some mandatory training

Volunteering Hours:
You will typically volunteer 4 hours a week on a weekday between the hours of 9 AM to 2 PM.

To apply: Please email volunteer@zarach.org for a copy of the application form.

When:

Where:

Various SK locations

Closing date for applications:

31 May 2025

Who to contact:

Srish Arjen

Zarach

Organisation description:

Bed poverty exists when a family doesn’t have the sleeping arrangements they need for their children due to a lack of financial resources. For children in this situation, it has a significant impact on their education. Zarach’s mission to ensure that every child has a bed of their own gives them a greater chance to learn and succeed at school. Zarach is a national charity committed to helping vulnerable children and families living in poverty. We work closely with schools and professionals in the community. We see the challenges of poverty every day. We aim to reach out to families within 48 hours of their school referral. We are passionate and driven to make an immediate and real difference to a child’s life. At the point of delivering beds and bundles to children, we are helping to lift them out of bed poverty in that instant. This incredible act removes a mountain of cost for a family and can last for many years. A bed provided to a child as they start school could last them their whole primary school journey. This massively improves their opportunity to engage at school and supports their physical, emotional, and learning development. Join our mission to end child bed poverty, giving children the opportunity to engage at school, and a chance to break the cycle of poverty.

Organisation type:

Registered Charity

Company location:

8 Whitehouse Street, Hunslet, Leeds LS101AD , LS10 1AD

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