Independent Visitor; volunteer

Overview

Looking for a volunteering opportunity that fits around your other commitments? This role is for an Independent Visitor, a volunteer who visits a child for a few hours each month to build a valuable and consistent relationship by spending time together doing fun activities.

• Visit a child for a few hours each month to build a valuable and consistent relationship by spending time together doing fun activities.

Coram’s rolling recruitment; interviews with prospective candidates arranged as soon as possible after application.

Please mark any questions as N/A if they seem irrelevant to the Independent Visitor role.

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from global majority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.