About St John Ambulance:
St John Ambulance Badgers are young people aged 5-10 within St John Ambulance and are the youngest people within the organisation. Our Badger Setts are all about fun, adventure, and learning first aid.
Badgers are organised into local units in which they develop their skills, take part in activities, and build relationships. Badger Setts usually meet once a week for around 1 hour 30 minutes.
Badgers take part in a wide range of fun activities based on essential first aid and other fascinating topics, earning badges and certificates for each one. For every 3 subjects a Badger completes, they receive an award until they complete 9 subjects to achieve their Super Badger Award.
Our Badger programme covers a wide range of subjects and activities, from first aid to communication skills, to healthy living and being safe. All the subjects have been written by St John people, with the aim of Badgers in mind and to support children through their learning and development journey.
Badgers can:
- Learn first aid
- Make new friends
- Get creative with arts and crafts
- Find out how the body works and how to stay healthy
- Learn about helping their local community
- Take part in team games
- Develop leadership and communication skills, and much more!
Youth Leader:
Summary: Youth Helpers teach young people, from all different backgrounds, vital and life-changing first aid skills. No previous experience is needed.
Detailed description:
Youth Team Volunteers teach young people, of all different backgrounds, vital and life-changing first aid skills. You'll help our young people build up their confidence, self-discipline, and teamwork skills, and have some fun along the way.
Working with your Unit Manager, you will lead session plans under the Unit Manager’s direction, support young people to achieve their challenges, and strive to engage new members of the community in joining St John Ambulance.
We're looking for Youth Helpers and Youth Leaders. You'll start off as a Youth Helper and, if you fancy it, you will get the opportunity to become a Youth Leader, with some additional training and experience.
As a Youth Leader you will:
- Create a safe, inclusive, and open environment, where young people can learn life skills, including First Aid
- Support the delivery of games, activities, and sessions
- Coordinate with your team to make sure young people are safe and supervised
- Empower and encourage inclusion and participation of all the young people
- Support the Unit Manager with administration, collecting resources, paperwork, etc.
- Leading, organising, and supporting the participation and delivery of the programme in a fun way
- Ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all young people and adults in the unit
- Managing the parent/guardian rota
- Understanding and applying all relevant policies, procedures, youth programme, content, and role requirements in the unit
- Completing all necessary training for the Youth Leader role
All training will be given, so no experience is necessary. You do not need to be first aid trained to apply for this role. The role will require an enhanced DBS disclosure to be completed.
What we will provide to volunteers:
- Reimbursement of costs and out of pocket expenses
- Extra support, welcome programme and training in appropriate policies and procedures
- Access to external discount sites, including Blue Light Card
Please email devonyouth@sja.org.uk with any questions.