Children’s Activity Volunteer

Caudwell Children; Congleton; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A charity organization in Congleton is looking for volunteers to support disabled and neurodivergent children during weekend activity sessions. Responsibilities include assisting staff, ensuring children's safety, and engaging with them to create a fun environment. No specific qualifications are required, but experience with children is beneficial. This flexible role allows volunteers to support one session a month, making a meaningful impact.

Responsibilities

• Assist staff in running activity sessions for disabled children aged 8–11.
• Ensure all children are safe during activity sessions.
• Support staff with planned activities.
• Participate in setting up and taking down activities.
• Engage with children to ensure they have fun.

Skills

Approachable with good interpersonal skills

Experience with supporting children

Experience in an educational setting

Job description

Do you want to support disabled and neurvodivergent children to have the opportunity to access fun activities, to discover new interest and make new friends?

You can help us by supporting our children’s activity club at the weekends!

About Caudwell Children

Established in 2000, Caudwell Children is a national charity that works to transform the lives of disabled children and their families, enabling them to challenge the barriers they face throughout childhood by providing practical and emotional support. The Charity is going through an exciting period of growth having recently opened a new state-of-the-art facility for multi-disciplinary therapy programmes for childhood disability and research of neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, within the grounds of Keele University. It provides a state-of-the-art base for the Charity’s therapies and an environment where ground-breaking research can be undertaken, potentially changing the way some disabilities are treated, and affecting millions of people around the world. This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-moving Charity at a time when it will attract national and international attention.

What will you be doing?

• Assist Caudwell Children staff member(s) in running the short break activity sessions for disabled and SEN children aged 8–11.
• Help to ensure all children are safe during the activity sessions
• Support staff members with planned activities
• Participate in setting up an activity and helping with the set down
• Communicate and engage with the children to ensure they have fun

What skills would be useful?

• Approachable with good interpersonal skills
• Experience with supporting children
• Experience in an educational setting

How much time are you expected to give and when?

Volunteering is flexible. The sessions take place at the weekend and last 3 to 4 hours. For the role to be mutually beneficial, we hope for volunteers to support 1 session a month.

Location:

At our venue in Congleton, Cheshire East

We can provide reasonable adjustments from the point of you applying, through recruitment, onboarding to supporting you in your volunteer role.