L'Arche Internship Ipswich
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Job Summary
A year of growth care and relationship.
The LArche Internship is a year of living in a LArche community alongside people with learning disabilities. Interns work as a support worker and participate in a training programme all about care disability community development reflection and spirituality.
Interns spend 34 hours a week offering support and care to members with learning disabilities and 6 hours a week on a bespoke programme. This reflective course involves meeting with other interns and facilitators to explore topics such as activism power personal growth and change-making. Interns then put what theyre learning into practice in their own community by participating in and developing community activities.
The Internship is designed for people looking to learn through experience immerse themselves in community and work with people with learning disabilities. We do not require applicants to have any particular experience or professional background. We are looking for people who are open to growth and relationship and who are confident in taking initiative. Our previous cohorts have included school leavers taking a gap year university students on placement years people looking for professional development graduates and people taking sabbaticals.
Read the job pack below to learn more about the kinds of attributes were looking for in interns.
*The Internship is for anyone who already has the right to live and work in the UK. If you want to join LArche but need a visa please consider applying to become a Live-In Community Worker.
Watch the video below to find out more about the LArche Internship meet some of our previous interns and discover what they got out of the programme. Please note this programme used to be called the Soulful Internship but was recently renamed for clarity.
The LArche UK Internship Programme(video)
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About Company
At L’Arche, people with and without learning disabilities share lives together. Our communities seek to be signs of hope within our societies.
