Background
VCKC empowers people to develop skills, knowledge, confidence, and positive relationships through rewarding volunteering. They enable people to improve and maintain their health, find paid work where that is one of their aims, and increase their independence.
VCKC helps local community organisations to recruit and manage volunteers to provide their vital services, while also ensuring placements are accessible, inclusive and safe, and that volunteers have a good quality experience that responds to their volunteering goals.
Main Purpose of Job
- To provide people with criminal records released (or about to be released) from prison or secure hospital with advice, assistance, and advocacy services in order to improve their wellbeing, enable them to establish and sustain independent lives, and reduce their risk of re-offending
- To help InsideOut participants to maintain and develop strong, healthy relationships with those around them – friends and family, neighbours, civil society, and those able to support them or offer them opportunities to support others
- To use volunteering to develop participants’ skills, knowledge, and confidence
- To enable participants to gain paid employment/self-employment where this is their aim
- To develop and maintain good working relationships as part of the VCKC team (maximising potential to contribute to a positive culture and to achieve our shared objectives)
- To liaise with a wide range of statutory and non-profit stakeholders, including prison staff, health, and probation service teams, to further the objectives of the programme
- To promote the impact of the service and the needs of participants
For the full job description and to find out how to apply, click here.
Deadline for applications: 9am on Tuesday 15 July.
Organisation
Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea
Closing Date
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