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Caring Together is a leading charity supporting carers of all ages across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.
At Caring Together our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated ...
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Young Carers
Organisation role · Flexible hours
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Children & youthOlder peopleHealth
Caring Together Charity
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Summary
Assisting with trips for young carers across the county, to ensure they get a much needed and well deserved break from their caring role.Detailed description
Summary of the role
We are looking for amazing people to help support at our young carer groups, trips, and workshops. If you are fun, outgoing, supportive, have a good sense of humour and want to help enrich the lives of young carers we would love for you to join our team.
Where you will be based
The groups are based in Huntingdon, St Ives and Peterborough. Trips and activities are held in the school holidays in various locations.
What you will do
- Assist session leads at groups, workshops, trips, and activities.
- Help set up/tidy up at groups.
- Support session leads in supervising young carers and ensuring they are safe at all times.
- Participate, support and encourage young carers to get involved in activities.
- Offer support to young carers in a group setting.
- Work closely with staff members and be a part of a team.
- Be able to join online sessions via Zoom and have a good internet connection.
- Attend occasional day events run for the young carers.
- Be willing to travel across the county to join groups/trips.
- Ensure personal and collective respect for another person’s reasonable rights to privacy - particularly over issues about and arising from their role as a young carer.
- Work to Caring Together Charity's policies, procedures and codes of practice, including disciplinary, grievance procedures and safeguarding of children.
Your commitment
- To attend regular supervision and meetings regarding the young carers groups, as required.
- To work alongside other young carers organisations locally and other Carers Trust young carers projects, as required.
Benefits to the volunteer
- Gaining new skills, both practically and personally.
- The satisfaction of knowing you are making an important and valued difference to someone’s life/the work of Caring Together Charity.
- Meeting new people and be part of a friendly team.
- Gaining valuable experience in the social care field within a voluntary organisation.
Our commitment to you
- The opportunity to use and enhance your existing skills and develop new, transferable skills.
- Reimbursement of reasonable travel expenses.
What we need from you
- Enhanced DBS check (cost covered by Caring Together Charity).
Skills and experience
- Good communication skills.
- Enthusiastic.
- Friendly and enjoy meeting and supporting people.
- Committed, reliable and trustworthy.
While we have listed the key skills for this volunteering role, we are always willing to discuss the role with you to explore your skills and ideas and match them to our needs. Please do get in contact if you wish to discuss this further.
What we will provide to volunteers
💸 Reimbursement of costsAbout Caring Together Charity
Caring Together is a leading charity supporting carers of all ages across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.
At Caring Together our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated or struggling alone. You can join us in working to make this vision a reality for people who are looking after a family member or friend.
If you are an unpaid carer, we are here to help you. We are here to give you information and advice, and to provide services and support, to make your caring role more manageable, to benefit you and the person you support.
There are over 150,000 unpaid carers across the region covered by the charity: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Peterborough, and tens of thousands are caring alone behind closed doors. More than three in five of us will become an unpaid carer at some point in our life. We will look after a family member or friend who needs our help because of illness, disability, poor mental health or addiction. Despite how common caring is, many unpaid carers feel they are on their own.
Unpaid carers often find themselves plunged into a caring role with little warning, and feel completely overwhelmed by the heavy responsibilities they shoulder. Many are exhausted from looking after their husband, wife, partner, parent, sibling or child for hours every day, sometimes in addition to trying to hold down a job or bring up children.
We need your help to make sure that even more carers in our local communities receive the practical and emotional support that they need.
Caring Together is a network partner of Carers Trust and has grown significantly over the past ten years, providing more services and more help for family carers and their families across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.
At Caring Together our vision is a world with no unpaid carer in crisis, isolated or struggling alone. You can join us in working to make this vision a reality for people who are looking after a family member or friend.
If you are an unpaid carer, we are here to help you. We are here to give you information and advice, and to provide services and support, to make your caring role more manageable, to benefit you and the person you support.
There are over 150,000 unpaid carers across the region covered by the charity: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Peterborough, and tens of thousands are caring alone behind closed doors. More than three in five of us will become an unpaid carer at some point in our life. We will look after a family member or friend who needs our help because of illness, disability, poor mental health or addiction. Despite how common caring is, many unpaid carers feel they are on their own.
Unpaid carers often find themselves plunged into a caring role with little warning, and feel completely overwhelmed by the heavy responsibilities they shoulder. Many are exhausted from looking after their husband, wife, partner, parent, sibling or child for hours every day, sometimes in addition to trying to hold down a job or bring up children.
We need your help to make sure that even more carers in our local communities receive the practical and emotional support that they need.
Caring Together is a network partner of Carers Trust and has grown significantly over the past ten years, providing more services and more help for family carers and their families across Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk.