Home Visiting Volunteer

Home Visiting Volunteer

Organisation role · 2 hrs/Week
Flexible location
Community & familyWellbeingPoverty reduction
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Home Start Perth and Kinross
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Summary

Home Start volunteers help families who are struggling by visiting them in their homes to provide help and support to parents and their children.

Detailed description

What it takes to be a Home-Start Volunteer

  • You must be a parent or have parenting experience.
  • As a Home-Start volunteer you will support a family by visiting them at home for around two hours once a week.
  • You should be able to commit at least one year of your time to Home-Start.
  • You should have a non-judgmental attitude and understand about the pressures of bringing up a family.
  • You will have to attend our free Volunteer Preparation Course with other new volunteers before meeting your first family.
  • When visiting a family travel expenses are paid.
  • You must understand that your support for families is completely confidential.
  • You will have to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check at enhanced level.
  • You will meet regularly with, and be supported by, one of our co-ordinators during the time you are visiting families.

What we will provide to volunteers

💸 Reimbursement of costs🤝 Extra support
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About Home Start Perth and Kinross

We believe that children need a happy and secure childhood and that parents and carers play the key role in giving their children a good start in life and helping them to achieve their potential.
We provide a unique service; recruiting and training volunteers who themselves have parenting experience, to work with families in their own homes, building supportive relationship and responding directly to the family’s individual needs.