3 Days Left Volunteer Youth Advisory Group Member

As a member of the advisory group, you will use your lived experience to provide valuable insights, guidance, and feedback to help shape projects, policies or services. Your unique perspective will ensure that decision-making processes remain inclusive, empathetic, and grounded in real-world experiences.

About Caudwell Children

Established in 2000, Caudwell Children is a national charity that works to transform the lives of disabled children and their families, enabling them to challenge the barriers they face throughout childhood by providing practical and emotional support. The Charity is going through an exciting period of growth having recently opened a new state-of-the-art facility for multi-disciplinary therapy programmes for childhood disability and research of neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, within the grounds of Keele University. It provides a state-of-the-art base for the Charity's therapies and an environment where ground-breaking research can be undertaken, potentially changing the way some disabilities are treated, and affecting millions of people around the world. This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-moving Charity at a time when it will attract national and international attention.

Outline of key responsibilities:

- Attend the group meetings and take part by sharing your thoughts and ideas.
- Talk about your own experiences to help everyone understand things better.
- Share kind and helpful suggestions to make projects, activities, or plans even better.
- Work as a team with other young people to come up with fun and useful ideas.
- Review the group's plans or materials and give your thoughts on how to improve them.

Person Specification

- You care about helping make life better for disabled or neurodivergent children.
- You're happy to share your own experiences.
- You're open to listening to others and respect everyone's ideas and thoughts.
- Share your ideas clearly and kindly with the group.
- Understand the importance of keeping things private and being fair.
- You can attend meetings every two months at the Caudwell International Children's Centre.

Suggested Time Commitment

To encourage consistency for the group, the suggested time commitment for group members includes:

- 3 – 4 hours of initial online training (covering charity induction, information governance and safeguarding).
- Attendance at an in-person meeting every 2 months, with meeting duration up to 2 hours; equating to 12 hours per year.
- Occasional time for reviewing materials or participating in additional discussions outside of scheduled meetings as agreed.

Support and Benefits

- Induction training and ongoing support to understand the advisory group process.
- Complimentary refreshments provided for meetings.
- Opportunities for personal and professional development.
- Optional attendance at events held for Caudwell Children volunteers (e.g. Christmas party).
- The chance to make a meaningful impact on projects and initiatives that align with your experiences and values.

Accountability

You will link with the Caudwell Children staff representative for the Advisory Group, alongside collaborating with other advisory group members.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse environment. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences. If you require any adjustments or accommodations as part of the recruitment process, please detail this on your application form and we will endeavour to support any requests where possible.

Recruitment and Selection

Full detail on the recruitment process can be found in 'Application Process' flowchart. We strive to ensure that our advisory group reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. Therefore, whilst the person specification will be utilised to identify those suitable for the role, members will also be selected based on a commitment to diversity across the following areas: age, gender, ethnicity, culture, disability and neurodivergence. In addition, we hope to select people with a wide range of interests and expertise relevant to the group's focus areas.

Through this inclusive selection process, we aim to build a dynamic and well-rounded advisory group that is equipped to offer diverse perspectives and insights.

We can provide reasonable adjustments from the point of you applying, through recruitment, onboarding to supporting you in your volunteer role.

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