Community Clothing Assistant (Helping distribute free clothing to families in the local community)

Our community clothing services provide free clothing for children, young people and families withing child and family centres. Clothing donations are cleaned, sorted and made available, free of charge, to families who use our centres from the local community. The clothing is rotated seasonally, and some outlets provide specialised clothing, such as school uniforms or babywear.

As a community clothing assistant, you will provide a warm welcome to families visiting the centre. You'll provide support to ensure the smooth running of the community clothing service, such as assisting with sign-ins, and helping families with finding appropriate clothing for their child or children. You will also lend a hand with accepting and sorting clothing donations, including sorting donations to be cleaned or passed onto Barnardo's stores.

Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services brings together a range of children's community services that are free at the point of delivery. It's provided by HCRG in partnership with Barnardo's on behalf of Essex County Council, West Essex CCG and the NHS.

The focus across all our services is on making sure that everyone in Essex has the best possible start in life through community services that are accessible, high quality and meet the identified needs of children, young people, and families.

We deliver broad areas of support:

1. Health Visiting: e.g. antenatal contact, transition to parenthood, new baby review, maternal mental health, wellbeing and development of children under 1 year and 2-3 year reviews, support to 'be ready for school'
2. Parenting Support: e.g. breastfeeding support, weaning toilet training, school entry review and childcare confidence support
3. School Nursing: e.g. support for young people in schools with wellbeing and health concerns, Chat Health an online support service
4. Family Health: e.g. substance misuse, contraception advice, nutrition support, mental health (maternal & infant), smoking cessation.
5. Support for ages 5-19: e.g. dental care, review of immunisation status, support with any physical, emotional or developmental problems, provides children, parents and school staff with information on specific health issues, measuring height and weight
6. Support for young people with special educational needs and disabilities up to the age of 25

We are looking for warm and friendly volunteers for our community clothing assistant role. This will be to support our free clothing service for families in the local community. The role would be to sort clothing donations and promote recycling and reusing clothes to our service users visiting our Hubs.

This role is flexible, ideally, we are looking for one or two people, once or twice per week for 1-2 hours.