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Researcher - The impact of baby banks in health and social care
Organisation Details
Little Green Sock Project
Activity type: Children
Sub theme: Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Children, Domestic Violence, Health and Wellbeing, Homeless and Housing, Mental Health
Stellify Award: This opportunity is part of 'Make a Difference'
Organisation Description: Little Green Sock Project is a children's charity providing essential clothing, toiletries and equipment to families in crisis - we do this by reusing children's items donated by the local community and supporting organisations. This could be due to financial hardship or circumstances such as escaping war or domesic abuse. We work with a wide range of referral partners who refer families for support, and we support approx 100 children per month.
Description of role: *Researchers needed!*
We believe the support we provide to families have far wider benefits than what it appears on the surface. Our referrers tell us that as a result of our support families engage with their support services further and it helps them to build trusting professional relationships with the families.
Many of the families we support are from the most marginalised communities such as refugees, asylum seekers and those fleeing domestic abuse. Health inequalities are vast in these communities. We want to evidence the impact our support has on support services being able to build relationships with their clients from these communities, whilst also providing the basics to support early childhood development.
We hope to be able to work with an experienced researcher who can help us design the research project, plan and implement, then analyse, evaluate the work. We expect to utilise our referrer base to obtain qualitative data through interviews, case studies, and family interviews in collaboration with our partners in the Domestic Abuse refuge and Homestart, and through families we have developed relationships with over the last 6 months since offering face to face support.
The research will enable us to be far clearer in measuring our impact on our community and will make our charity more appealing to funders, commissioners and supporters.
We are in Stretford Mall which is a short walk from Stretford MetroLink.
We believe the support we provide to families have far wider benefits than what it appears on the surface. Our referrers tell us that as a result of our support families engage with their support services further and it helps them to build trusting professional relationships with the families.
Many of the families we support are from the most marginalised communities such as refugees, asylum seekers and those fleeing domestic abuse. Health inequalities are vast in these communities. We want to evidence the impact our support has on support services being able to build relationships with their clients from these communities, whilst also providing the basics to support early childhood development.
We hope to be able to work with an experienced researcher who can help us design the research project, plan and implement, then analyse, evaluate the work. We expect to utilise our referrer base to obtain qualitative data through interviews, case studies, and family interviews in collaboration with our partners in the Domestic Abuse refuge and Homestart, and through families we have developed relationships with over the last 6 months since offering face to face support.
The research will enable us to be far clearer in measuring our impact on our community and will make our charity more appealing to funders, commissioners and supporters.
We are in Stretford Mall which is a short walk from Stretford MetroLink.
Skills / qualities associated with the role: Project Management, Research, Written Communication Skills
Are volunteer expenses available?: Yes
Duration of role: Ongoing / Long term
Opportunity times: Tuesday AM, Tuesday PM, Wednesday AM, Wednesday PM, Thursday AM, Thursday PM
DBS required: On
Can reasonable adjustments be made regarding additional needs?: Yes
Is this organisation part of the Sports Volunteering Scheme (SVS)?: No
Minimum hours commitment: 2 hours
Location:
Unit 13/14 Stretford Mall
Stretford
M32 9BA