Sewing Session Assistant

We seek to serve the local church by providing the staff, technical skills and resources to run regular sewing workshop as a means of demonstrating Jesus’ love to their local community. Sewing sessions aim to support people living in financial hardship by providing a space to make, mend and alter clothes and home furnishings, whilst drawing the local community as a whole together.

We aim to provide a place of belonging: building communities that love and care for one another.

As we build this network we ask churches to partner with us. We seek host churches who are willing to provide a venue and hospitality. We then reach out to the community for volunteer support. As a Sewing Session Assistant you will work alongside the Regional Hub Leader and the volunteer team to provide a friendly and welcoming environment, demonstrating care and compassion, whilst being organised and having a strong team ethic.

Our sewing sessions run from a place of prayer: we pray before each session, and at the close of the session. As the assistant you will help the regional hub leader to provide a safe and welcoming place for volunteers to engage with open prayer together.

You will have a basic understanding of sewing (know how to thread a sewing machine).

We work on a 5-6 week, half-termly basis, generally during the school academic year. We do much of our communication and planning via Whats App. We ask all participants to use Whats App as a text based tool only. Making direct calls is only permitted by mutual agreement for a set time and date, negotiated via text. Sharing another person’s contact details is not permitted without their direct consent.

As our Sewing Session Assistant you would be required to work alongside the hub leader:

• providing a welcoming and loving atmosphere, through the hospitality of refreshments.
• setting up tables and chairs and helping to unload and load equipment.
• maintaining the register of attendance.
• assisting in collecting enrolment information.
• lending out sewing equipment and ensure its safe return.
• monitoring and reminding people of safe practices.
• encouraging people to engage in conversations and activities.
• liaising with local supporters to promote the sewing sessions.
• providing technical sewing support to participants as required.
• engaging with the sewing topic alongside volunteers and participants as and when time permits.
• working and praying in a way that respects the charity’s Christian values and ethos whilst honouring all participants have different views and opinions.

Skills and qualifications:

• a friendly and personable disposition, with a focus on hospitality.
• a minimum basic understanding of sewing and use of domestic sewing equipment.

We strongly encourage the Sewing Session Assistant to live locally, helping us be connected to the local community and local church. Sometimes we pay an additional hour (short term for 6-12 weeks) to enable the post holder to network locally with other community groups and support networks. This helps build awareness of the sessions and provides a means of advertising what we offer.

This post is for a temporary contract, according to our working policy, paying an hourly living wage with allowance included for holiday and pensions, currently set at £15.08/hr (£46/session). Sessions are 3 hrs each week (term-time only, approximately 30 weeks a year). Training sessions outside the weekly sewing hub rhythm happen once a year.

The post holder will be required to provide two referees, who form part of our Safer recruitment practices.

We currently have no Sewing Session Assistant posts available.

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