JEWISH CARE

Ad Hoc Challah Delivery Volunteer for Holocaust Survivors

Role Summary: Jewish Care delivers around 90 challah each week to Holocaust Survivors across North West London. This role is to be part of the team who collect challahs from either Jewish Care’s Golder’s Green or Sandringham (Stanmore) Hubs on a Thursday or Friday morning and deliver them to Holocaust survivors on a Thursday/ Friday.  

• You will be joining an existing team where you are unlikely to be needed every week but will be contacted on an ad hoc basis to help. Although this is an ad-hoc role, it is vitally important that we have backup and ad hoc drivers to call up on when needed.
  
  
• Collection points are at Amelie House in Golders Green, and Sandringham in Stanmore. Collection from Golders Green is between 9am-6pm on Thursdays, or on Friday mornings. Collections from Stanmore are between 10.15am-3pm on Thursdays.
  
  
• Challah deliveries must be fulfilled before 5pm on Thursday and at least two hours before Shabbat on a Friday.

We are also looking for one driver to transport the packed challah from the packing hub in Golders Green to Sandringham in Stanmore each week. These would need collecting from Golders Green between 8.15am-9.15am to be ready at Sandringham for collections from 10am

How this role makes a difference:
This project has been designed to help our HSC (Holocaust Survivor Centre) members mark Shabbat. A friendly face on the doorstep each week with a challah in hand also helps combat loneliness and isolation and ensure that the Holocaust survivors that we look after all feel loved and cared for.

What you’ll be doing in this role:

• Collecting challahs from Jewish Care on a Thursday or Friday as required on an ad hoc basis
• Calling ahead to clients before delivery
• Driving and delivering to members’ homes
• Feedback to project leads regarding status of delivery and any client concerns where required

Skills & experience you required:

• Reliability and dependability
• Friendly demeaner and a can-do attitude
• Confidently engaging with older adults
• Good conversational skills
• Full driving license and insured car – Jewish Care will provide specific driver training
• Jewish Care DBS needed

Induction, Learning & Development:
Training is provided so that volunteers can carry out their roles to the highest professional standards, develop new skills, build confidence, make new friends and take on new and increasingly responsible tasks. 
Jewish Care will provide the following training, essential for this role:

• Provide you with access to a Volunteer Handbook and all Policies and Procedures.
• Provide Induction Training:  Getting to know Jewish Care, Communication & Disability Awareness, Boundaries & Confidentiality, Safeguarding, Health & Safety, GDPR.
• Provide Driver Training

• Provide on the job induction.

Benefits of Volunteering with Jewish Care:

Without our volunteers, we simply couldn’t function.  We absolutely depend on you.  Whatever your age, disability, whether you are working, unemployed or retired, there are opportunities to help at Jewish Care.

As well as helping others, you’ll get the chance to develop skills, build confidence and make new friends.

• Enhance the lives of older people, making a real difference to the Jewish Community we support.
• Be part of a great team and make new friends.
• Build your confidence and develop transferable skills.
• Access to a comprehensive training programme designed for the social care environment.
• Gain valuable experience and enhance your CV

Why get involved with Jewish Care?
The work of Jewish Care and the services we provide to our community are vital.  We touch the lives of 10,000 people each week, with everything we do being underpinned by our Jewish values and ethics.  We provide services to:

• Older people
• People with Mental Health needs
• Holocaust Survivors
• People who are living with Dementia
• People with physical and sensory disabilities
• People who care for others

We can only do this thanks to our amazing professional staff of 1,400 and the 3,000 dedicated volunteers who help make our work possible.

If you have any questions about this role or about volunteering with Jewish Care,  please contact volunteering@jcare.org or telephone 020 8922 2405.