EVS vacancy in Estonia>>December 22, 2014 deadline>>JUKS centre for disable people
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Lilit Hakobyan
Nov 28, 2014, 4:23:21 AM11/28/14
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Dear friends,
Workers in Development Centre is around 25, in Work Centre 10 and in 24-Care Centre 9 workers. And 4 in Day Activity groups. Only 1 of them are man and the others are all women. In Estonia its very normal that social area working only women. Most of them with some English skill.
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Here we have an EVS vacancy in Tallin, Estonia
Duration: 9 months, from September 2015 - May 2016
Who can apply: Calm, friendly, easy going, not afraid of physical work with people with disabilities.
Details: Centre JUKS - Development Centre, Work Centre, Day activity groups, 24 hour Care Centre.
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Juks
Aim of the centre is to support person with special needs to cope maximally in everyday life, in vocational trainings and in working life.
Areas where the organisation is working are following:
Independency trainings- training with clients to manage to cope in everyday life and work, social skills
- Socialization- individual work with clients to develop skills for everyday management
- Art trainings
- Social work- rehabilitation service, supported working service, working practise.
- Therapy- music-, creative- and occupational therapy.
Working Centre is considered to be as a middle phase for disabled people before going to open or supported working market. Clients are working in different workshops and practising different skills such as hang loom knitting, china decorations, sewing, silk painting, ceramics etc. All the workshops are coordinated by the tutor.
Development Centre is main house and has been working more than 15 years for now. In order to help raise the ability to compete of disabled people in the field of education and labour. There´s a huge variety of themes that can be done with the groups. Here we should like to have one volunteer for first time.
24-hour care centre is meant for adults who have special need coming from severe and constant mental disorder. This service consists of helping and guiding the client in different everyday acts. Here we like to have one volunteer for third year.
Day Activity Groups is providing different support services for adult with intellectual disabilities. Most of them in retirement age and with no other place to stay.
Areas where the organisation is working are following:
Independency trainings- training with clients to manage to cope in everyday life and work, social skills
- Socialization- individual work with clients to develop skills for everyday management
- Art trainings
- Social work- rehabilitation service, supported working service, working practise.
- Therapy- music-, creative- and occupational therapy.
Working Centre is considered to be as a middle phase for disabled people before going to open or supported working market. Clients are working in different workshops and practising different skills such as hang loom knitting, china decorations, sewing, silk painting, ceramics etc. All the workshops are coordinated by the tutor.
Development Centre is main house and has been working more than 15 years for now. In order to help raise the ability to compete of disabled people in the field of education and labour. There´s a huge variety of themes that can be done with the groups. Here we should like to have one volunteer for first time.
24-hour care centre is meant for adults who have special need coming from severe and constant mental disorder. This service consists of helping and guiding the client in different everyday acts. Here we like to have one volunteer for third year.
Day Activity Groups is providing different support services for adult with intellectual disabilities. Most of them in retirement age and with no other place to stay.
Workers in Development Centre is around 25, in Work Centre 10 and in 24-Care Centre 9 workers. And 4 in Day Activity groups. Only 1 of them are man and the others are all women. In Estonia its very normal that social area working only women. Most of them with some English skill.
Motivation to host volunteers come from the wish to bring new ideas and “fresh air” to our everyday activities from the point of view of the clients and also the staff of the organisation. Having foreign volunteer gives possibility for our staff to communicate in foreign languages and develop their communication skills.
Juks has three different departments and we host volunteers in two of them. One volunteer activities take place in 24-Care Centre, where the main activities take place in the afternoon, from 2pm to 8pm (6 hours). During the day clients are in the others centres (our organisation centres – Work Centre and Development Centre. This Centre is surrounded by nature even its close to town city centre. Everything what volunteer need –shops, library, cinema, theatre, pubs, sportcentres – all those things can find in that city.
The second volunteer activities take place in Development Centre. The main activities take place in the morning when groups goes to the centre from 9 am to 3 pm (6 hours). This centre is arounded by nature as well. To town town is arounded 20-30 minutes.
Our organisation is celebrateing all legal holidays and the others quarter days what may find written in calender. And its good oppurtunity to volunteer to see estonian traditions/customs.
Both services are independent from each other, but as their own initiatives volunteers can make joint projects to facilitate workshops in both of them.
You can find us online: http://www.juks.ee/
*Working as a volunteer in Juks with disabled people is a good learning opportunity for the young person. Through the work they will get very good experience from the social field. Work with people with disabilities may be emotionally hard in the beginning without any previous experience, but it also gives very much for the volunteer in terms of personal development and reviewing the values to life. Volunteer will get good understanding of the Estonian social care system. Volunteers creativity and communication skills will develop strongly as volunteers needs to find ways how to get contact with the clients of the centre, none of the clients speaks English, and many of them have difficulties to communicate verbally in general. Also the volunteer will get experience working with different types of disabilities, possibility to gain knowledge about different types of therapy (from therapists who visit place), you can develope 'soft' skills like empathy, raise your sensitivity, openess among others.
1) Volunteer will mainly work as an assistant for the tutor in the centre, helping in different activities. With time and some experience she/he will gain also more responsibilities and according to her own interests and skills can take propose and initiate also new activities for the target group.
One volunteer will mainly work in the 24-Care Centre. Examples of the activities volunteer will be involved in are following:
- preparing activities with and for the residents of the centre for the leisure time (games, workshops, group activities etc)
- helping residents in shopping for the meals and preparing meal with them
- guiding residents in other everyday activities (cleaning rooms, doing dishes, washing clothes etc).
- assisting tutor of the centre in planning activities for the residents outside of the centre etc.
- assisting tutor preparing the meals
Besides working in the Centre for 24-Care, it is possible for the volunteer to get more involved also in the activities run in Working Centre, also help in the Day Activity Groups.
2) Volunteer will work in Development Centre. The Development Centre Prepares the disable person for a reintegration in the society and gives the social and labour skills to support that integration. The main activities for the volunteer would be:
- taking clients for outdoor (swimming pool, forest) and cultural (museums, art galleries) activities
- preparing classes (for example about one´s own country), having a presentations
- helping teachers during the classes
- assistance in activities like preparing a tee, wahing dishes
- taking part in a different art activities (ceramics, paintings, glass art)
- assistance in cooking class, computer class, music therapy
- participate in activities prepared for workers (like “energy day”, poetry evenings, coffee afternoons etc)
Both volunteers can eat in the organisation, but food money is also given to them each month and they will manage on their own. Local transport to work place is covered by the program. Volunteers will share flat with other volunteers in the city or students.
*The project is open to everybody who is positive, creative, with good communication skills, friendly and without prejudice towards disabled people. Should be interested in the field of disabled people as volunteer will work every day directly with severely and profoundly mentally and multiply disabled adults. Those two things are important to us because work with our client is hard. They are mentally ill. Some of them don’t speak. Some of them can act differently and if you don’t know the reason (knowledges) or you don’t have practise/experience with them then it may be stressful. Former experiences in the field of social work are not needed. But its good if volunteer knows what means intellectual disabilities. Basic English is needed for communicating with the staff of the Center. The volunteer should be very dynamic in order to propose and develop their workshops and ideas to the tutors. Also he/she should be responsible, conscientious, helpful.
First selection of the volunteers will be made according to their motivation letter and before final decision also phone interview will be organized.
In 24-Care Center should have volunteer who don’t have any disabilities and any social obstacles. Because in this Center clients needs so often instructions. Our clients are menthally ill people and they need much more attention.
The second volunteer activities take place in Development Centre. The main activities take place in the morning when groups goes to the centre from 9 am to 3 pm (6 hours). This centre is arounded by nature as well. To town town is arounded 20-30 minutes.
Our organisation is celebrateing all legal holidays and the others quarter days what may find written in calender. And its good oppurtunity to volunteer to see estonian traditions/customs.
Both services are independent from each other, but as their own initiatives volunteers can make joint projects to facilitate workshops in both of them.
You can find us online: http://www.juks.ee/
*Working as a volunteer in Juks with disabled people is a good learning opportunity for the young person. Through the work they will get very good experience from the social field. Work with people with disabilities may be emotionally hard in the beginning without any previous experience, but it also gives very much for the volunteer in terms of personal development and reviewing the values to life. Volunteer will get good understanding of the Estonian social care system. Volunteers creativity and communication skills will develop strongly as volunteers needs to find ways how to get contact with the clients of the centre, none of the clients speaks English, and many of them have difficulties to communicate verbally in general. Also the volunteer will get experience working with different types of disabilities, possibility to gain knowledge about different types of therapy (from therapists who visit place), you can develope 'soft' skills like empathy, raise your sensitivity, openess among others.
1) Volunteer will mainly work as an assistant for the tutor in the centre, helping in different activities. With time and some experience she/he will gain also more responsibilities and according to her own interests and skills can take propose and initiate also new activities for the target group.
One volunteer will mainly work in the 24-Care Centre. Examples of the activities volunteer will be involved in are following:
- preparing activities with and for the residents of the centre for the leisure time (games, workshops, group activities etc)
- helping residents in shopping for the meals and preparing meal with them
- guiding residents in other everyday activities (cleaning rooms, doing dishes, washing clothes etc).
- assisting tutor of the centre in planning activities for the residents outside of the centre etc.
- assisting tutor preparing the meals
Besides working in the Centre for 24-Care, it is possible for the volunteer to get more involved also in the activities run in Working Centre, also help in the Day Activity Groups.
2) Volunteer will work in Development Centre. The Development Centre Prepares the disable person for a reintegration in the society and gives the social and labour skills to support that integration. The main activities for the volunteer would be:
- taking clients for outdoor (swimming pool, forest) and cultural (museums, art galleries) activities
- preparing classes (for example about one´s own country), having a presentations
- helping teachers during the classes
- assistance in activities like preparing a tee, wahing dishes
- taking part in a different art activities (ceramics, paintings, glass art)
- assistance in cooking class, computer class, music therapy
- participate in activities prepared for workers (like “energy day”, poetry evenings, coffee afternoons etc)
Both volunteers can eat in the organisation, but food money is also given to them each month and they will manage on their own. Local transport to work place is covered by the program. Volunteers will share flat with other volunteers in the city or students.
*The project is open to everybody who is positive, creative, with good communication skills, friendly and without prejudice towards disabled people. Should be interested in the field of disabled people as volunteer will work every day directly with severely and profoundly mentally and multiply disabled adults. Those two things are important to us because work with our client is hard. They are mentally ill. Some of them don’t speak. Some of them can act differently and if you don’t know the reason (knowledges) or you don’t have practise/experience with them then it may be stressful. Former experiences in the field of social work are not needed. But its good if volunteer knows what means intellectual disabilities. Basic English is needed for communicating with the staff of the Center. The volunteer should be very dynamic in order to propose and develop their workshops and ideas to the tutors. Also he/she should be responsible, conscientious, helpful.
First selection of the volunteers will be made according to their motivation letter and before final decision also phone interview will be organized.
In 24-Care Center should have volunteer who don’t have any disabilities and any social obstacles. Because in this Center clients needs so often instructions. Our clients are menthally ill people and they need much more attention.
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APPLICATION PROCESS
Interested volunteers, please send your filled EVS form (which can be found enclosed) and Motivation Letter tohak.l...@gmail.com by December 22, 2014.
NOTE:
1. There is a section for Sending Organisation in the form, pls leave the space for us to fill in.
2. Please mark clearly the service you are interested in.
3. If you are interested in more than one project , pls mark your order of preference and write different Motivation Letters.
4. While filling the form pls be as detailed as possible.
5. Selected volunteers might be asked for a skype interview with the host organisation.
Good Luck!
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