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Contact a Family supports and enables parents and families caring for disabled children to have access to good quality advice and information, broad ranging appropriate support and contact with other families. We are a growing organisation dedicated to putting the voice of parents at the forefront of all our work.
Current vacancies are shown below. If you are interested in voluntary work then there is a section for this.
Further details for each of the jobs can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat pdf format via the links below. Our standard application form, equal opportunities form and guidance notes can be downloaded in both Rich Text Format (rtf) and as a Word document, enabling the form to be opened by most word processing software and completed directly.
Contact a Family is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Our Equal Opportunities Policy (0.1Mb) and our Policy On The Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (0.1Mb) can also be downloaded.
This post will be employed by Contact a Family, working as part of the team under the banner of Together for Disabled Children.
This is a high profile, fast paced project tasked with delivering active parent participation activity England-wide within the 2 year project timescale.
We are looking for someone who can work with colleagues across the Together for Disabled Children team including the lead partners: SERCO and Contact a Family.
The work will involve providing administrative support to Together for Disabled Children colleagues based at Contact a Family and working across England. It will also include taking enquiries about the programme from parents and professionals.
The post holder will need excellent administration skills. They will be a strong team player, highly motivated and with excellent communication skills. They must also be able to answer a wide variety of enquiries clearly and in a timely manner.
They will be assisting with arrangements for events across the country and must be able to set up record keeping systems and take bookings and enquiries from a wide variety of people across the country. On occasion, they may be required to travel to events to assist with co-ordinating the day.
They will have a minimum of two years experience of administration work and excellent office IT skills.
Annual leave entitlement: 15 days per year
Closing date: Monday 11th August 2008
Interview date: Thursday 21st August 2008
Download application pack
Alternatively, application packs are available via post. Please write to: Contact a Family, 209-211 City Road, London EC1V 1JN e-mail: recruitment@cafamily.org.uk or tel: 020 7608 8777, stating the job title of the post you are interested in. You can also use these contact details if you have a query and wish to ask our Human Resources Department a question.
Volunteers - Recruitment opportunities
Volunteer Parent Representatives
We have a team of 40 volunteer Volunteer Parent Representatives around the UK. All are parents of disabled children, representing Contact a Family in their local areas. Their role is to gather information on local sources of support for families, to provide useful local information to parents and professionals and to publicise the kind of help that Contact a Family can provide - for example, managing a stand at an information day or local parents' event. Most reps also end up joining a local planning group or forum and raising concerns for families.
To enable you to do this, we provide all out of pocket expenses, a separate phone line at your home, display boards, posters, leaflets and publications for you to give out and your own business cards to give you the status you deserve! We provide opportunities for you to meet at twice-yearly residential meetings and have some training, share ideas and have a night out together without the family!
We currently have funding from Big Lottery to recruit volunteer Volunteer Parent Representatuves in:
- Cambridgeshire
- North Yorkshire
If you have an interest in any of the above Volunteer positions, please contact Karen McLean, Head of Service Development (England), at Contact a Family for an information pack or an informal chat on Tel: 020 7608 8778 or e-mail: karen.mclean@cafamily.org.uk
And in Scotland, we are now able to appoint two more Volunteer Parent Representatives.
If you are parenting a child with additional needs and want to help other families in your area to find the information and support they need, then we would like to hear from you.
For more information, an informal chat or an information pack please call Jacqui on Tel: 01387 263 563 or e-mail: jacqui.law@cafamily.org.uk
Contact a Family Scotland acknowledge the generous support of the Big Lottery Scotland and The Scottish Executive.
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