IVS-GB: Camphill School Aberdeen

IVS-GB: Camphill School Aberdeen

Dates: Flexible Start - Ongoing Project

Time commitment: 12 months

Approximate Location: Aberdeen

Project Description:

We provide residential, day care and respite accommodation to approximately 88 children and young adults (12 to 25 years old) with a wide variety of special needs. Care, education, therapy and creative activities are integrated. Relationships and social interaction, based on mutual care and respect, promote health development and resilience along with physical and emotional wellbeing. Our children and young adults belong to a house community. Each house community varies in size and accommodates approximately 5/10 children/young adults and 10/12 senior co-workers and volunteers.

Work Description:

Your major responsibility at all times is to the child/young adult in your care, whether in the classroom or the house. The task is to care for and to educate each child/young adult to the fullest extent possible. As a new co-worker you will be helped by more experienced colleagues to learn how to establish a successful relationship with the child/young adult, how to gauge what expectations to have for the individual, and how to develop each person’s potential to the fullest extent possible, so that maximum independence and self-reliance are achieved.

Think of it this way: you are setting out on a personal learning experience while helping the person in your care to themselves embark on a similar voyage of discovery. Their needs are paramount at all times.

Accommodation and Food:

We provide living accommodation and full board. Volunteers will have their own bedroom but all other accommodation is shared.

Pocket Money: £220 per month

Visa Info: You will need to apply to a Temporary Work (Charity Work) Visa. The application fee for the Visa is £310 GBP. To apply for this Visa you will need a Certificate of Sponsorship which will be provided by IVS at a cost of £55 GBP.

Insurance: As part of your Temporary Work (Charity Work) Visa, you will need to pay the NHS Immigration Health Surcharge if you are staying for more than 6 months which costs £1035 GBP if you are staying for more than 6 months.

Additional Information: Interviews will be via the telephone or zoom/skype