📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Aarhus Kommune, The Municipality of Aarhus, is the second-largest municipality in Denmark and includes the City of Aarhus along with other surrounding cities. It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula, in the geographical center of Denmark. The municipality of Aarhus employs approximately 30.000 employees and is therefore the largest employer in the city of Aarhus and one of the country’s largest public employers. The municipality serve a wide range of the regional population in all areas of the public sector with the aim of Aarhus being the best possible city for everyone to live and work in.
For information about the municipality and the projects in Aarhus, please see our website: www.aarhus.dk (also in English).
Aarhus Kommune (municipality) consists of different magistrates. Sundhed & Omsorg (Health and Care) is one such magistrate. Sundhed & Omsorg is divided in 4 geographically areas. Each area administrates both the home care for the citizens in that geographical area and a number of nursing homes for elderly and local centers. These centers are mostly used by elderly people living in their own home. At a local center residents can come to a small clinique to see a nurse, can participate in lot of leisure and health activities, there’s a café, and the center is also where lots of volunteers have their meetings and help out in different ways.
💼 What the programme involves
In order to apply please visit https://www.icye.dk/procedure-applying/ ONLY DANSK ICYE APPLICATION FORMS WILL BE CONSIDERED. For this type of project, we are looking for a number of four to six volunteers.
A Plejehjem is a nursing home and community center for elderly people of Aarhus Kommune – the municipality of Aarhus. All our nursing homes are situated in Aarhus – Denmark’s second largest city. Part of the nursing home can be a café, a community center with rooms for meetings and activities, and a health center.
The volunteers will be a part of the daily routines in the nursing home and community center, and sometimes also the café. They will participate and be involved in many different tasks and activities involving seniors and elderly citizens from supporting and running different activities and meetings to contributing to different initiatives targeting elderly. The activities are based on the wishes and needs of the elderly.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will either live in a shared apartment near the centre of Aarhus.
🎒 Leisure activities
On-arrival and mid-term training.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: highly motivated to work with elderly people
highly motivated to work within the field of health and care
social, outgoing, creative, empathetic
willing and ready to take initiative
Deadline: Application deadline: 02/04/2023
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.