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    Support Young Adults with Disabilities
    We have a community allotment in Chelmsford that our members attend to.

    We are looking for some enthusiastic volunteers to work alongside our amazing members who love to see the results of their hard work grow.

    Experience in this area would be perfect but equally we are open to recruiting people who are willing to learn.

    We are also looking for volunteers to work alongside our rapidly expanding Monday evening social club . Our members meet up to socialize, learn life skills and go out within the community safely.

    Recently we have started IndepenDANCE at a nightclub in Chelmsford, where our members enjoy live music, giving them the opportunity to let their hair down and have a dance We are looking for volunteers to help make these events run smoothly and to help people have some fun.


    Main Duties:
    Support Activity Coordinator


    Key responsibilities:

    • Assisting members to maintain an independent and active life away from their home.
    • Personal hygiene/care prompts.
    • Observe physical and emotional well-being, and promptly report any changes to Directors.
    • Maintain and promote a healthy lifestyle.
    • Ensuring health and wellbeing needs are monitored and met.
    • Maintain levels of safeguarding duties.
    • To help clients reach their full potential and enable participation of inclusive social activities.
    • Assist whilst in group activities.
    • Deliver a range of positive activities to engage young people and achieve the outputs and outcomes as required by the funders and the young people.
    • Work with young people to offer stimulating activities to ensure their engagement and personal growth and evaluating impact.
    • Work with staff/volunteers to deliver a range of activities including community based, online activities and sports, etc.
    • To create a safe (Risk assessed) enjoyable and friendly environment for young people to attend while assessing their needs and developing their abilities.
    • Provide accurate and appropriate information, advice and guidance to young people including signposting to other relevant organisations.
    • Increasing awareness of Independence Project and associated companies' services and service uptake. Identifying opportunities for growth and development.
    • To support and increase the employability skills of the members we support with practical hands-on approaches.
    These duties may vary from day to day and is not exhaustive. Any other reasonable duties that may be necessary.

    Nature of the Volunteer role: To assist with a variety of tasks, which will support Independence Project Ltd and Independence Clubs CIC and any associated companies to deliver services to its members.

    To have a focus on developing and building community and organisational relationships whilst developing and implementing specific projects.
    Skills

    • To have good communication skills.
    • To assist with the promotion of independence.
    • To enjoy helping others.
    • To have a fun and charismatic approach.

    Hours of work:
    Monday evening 6pm-8pm for our social nights.
    Wednesday 7pm-10pm, 4 times a year for our club night.
    Flexible hours for our allotment.


    Qualifications and Experience:

    • Able to provide young people with enjoyable, stimulating and challenging experiences.
    • Able to provide young people with appropriate information, advice, support and challenge, and refer them to specialist help when required.
    Monday evening 6pm-8pm for our social nights.
    Wednesday 7pm-10pm, 4 times a year for our club night.
    Flexible hours for our allotment.
    Location
    Unit 9 Kingsdale Business Centre
    Regina Road
    Chelmsford
    Essex
    CM1 1PE
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