📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Peter McVery Trust (PMVT) offers 12 month ESC placements, where volunteers have the opportunity to work in a number of different adult residential and/or day services in Dublin. Volunteers work a 35 hours week, participating in a range of activities such as aiding with the upkeep of the service and informally shadowing staff. Volunteers’ main task is to informally engage with, help and befriend service users (while always maintain professional boundaries), which is particularly important work given the marginalizing nature of homelessness. As well as benefiting our service users, this allows volunteers to gain a greater understanding of homelessness and drug abuse, seeing this important topics from a new perspective. PMVT is also happy to support volunteers in setting up individual projects, where appropriate, to aid their service users, therefore we search for proactive, creative volunteers. PMVT will also to support volunteers in setting up individual projects.
🏠 Accommodation on site
PMVT provides accommodation to all volunteers. Volunteers recive pocket money on monthly basis.
🎒 Leisure activities
Training is an important aspect of PMVT’s ESC programme and PMVT offers an Inductiontion to our organisation and the role. Additionaly, volunteers are asked to attend training provoided by Peter McVerry Trust (Bio-Hazard, First Aid, Fire Warden), which are necessary to have while volunteering in a service. The Volunteers are actively encouraged to identify training courses, seminars, conferences, and so on, which would aid their professional development and their training needs are discused with the volunteer coordinator.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: Placements are open to young people age 18 - 30, who are open minded, enthusastic and highly motivated. Volunteers who are interested, excited and energised by working with the most marginalised.We are looking for volunteers who have a high interest in development in the area of social problems/housing/health issues and are interested in gaining an understanding of the needs of homeless people. No previous experience is necessary, hwoever due to type of vurneable service user we work with, we are looking for volunteers who are flexiable, proactive and can take and recive constructive feedback.
Deadline: Application deadline: 18/06/2021
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.