Family Support Volunteer (Home-Visiting) Home-Start Clackmannanshire WHERE: Opportunities throughout Clackmannanshire WHEN At a time that suits you COMMITMENT: 2 hours a week (flexible to your availability)

Home-Start Clackmanshire
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HE ROLE OF HOME-VISITING VOLUNTEERS:
We are seeking individuals with parenting/caring experience to offer practical peer support to local families. Having this life experience and understanding that sometimes family life can be challenging is why volunteer support is so powerful and valuable in supporting other families.

Their home-visiting volunteers operate within the family setting – in their homes and supporting them to connect with their local community. Your role will be based on the family's needs. This could involve practical tasks such as helping them to get out of the house and go to a local park, encouraging them to attend appointments, offering guidance in setting household routines, or simply providing a listening ear.

Home-Start volunteers aim to build the confidence and independence of their matched family by:
• Offering support, friendship, and practical help.
• Committing to 2 hours per week home-visiting, according to the family's needs.
• Visiting the families in their own homes, where the dignity and identity of everyone can be respected and protected.
• Reassuring families that difficulties in bringing up children are not unusual.
• Emphasising the positive aspects of family life.
• Developing a relationship with the family where time can be shared and an understanding developed, providing a regular, reliable presence in that family.
• Drawing on their own life experiences to encourage parents' strengths and emotional well-being for the ultimate benefit of their children/family.
• Encouraging families to widen their network of relationships and to engage with broader support and services available in their community.