Volunteer Social Media Support

Volunteers make an enormous contribution to our work at Change Grow Live.

Last year over 1400 volunteers donated over a quarter of million hours of their time to our organisation.

Would you like to join our growing team of volunteers, and make a real difference?

Volunteering at Change Grow Live

Overview

Ealing RISE works with a number of agencies to support the residents of the borough of Ealing who are experiencing difficulties with drugs and/or alcohol. We work with the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and with a peer led service called Build on Belief (BoB). We help residents of the Borough of Ealing who are over 18 and work closely with the Women’s Wellness Zone, which offers support to women with complex needs.

We are looking for passionate and reliable volunteers to join our Ealing RISE Team.

Volunteers make an enormous contribution to our work at Change Grow Live and we are looking for volunteers who are interested in:

• Working as part of a team,
• Would like to support individuals to change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals and live life to its full potential

Responsibilities

You will work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team of Recovery Practitioners, Doctors, Nurses, Psychiatrists, and Psychologists, to deliver high quality provision at RISE.

The purpose of this role is to support the team:

• As a social media support volunteer, to maintain our social media presence.  
• Promote local initiatives
• provide harm reduction advice &
• Update people of any service changes.

This is an ideal role for anyone who is interested in learning and gaining experience working within a Drug and Alcohol recovery service in their community and supporting a local service to grow and maintain its social media platforms and presence. 

As a member of the Team, you will be offered a full training package and any additional training needed. You will be offered monthly supervisions, and have access to a wide variety of extra training packages to support your development and knowledge within the recovery service.

• • Volunteers contribute to Change Grow Live in a variety of ways. From Admin Volunteers to Service User Reps, from Peer Mentors to Healthcare Support Volunteers, from Independent Visitors to Community Mentors each volunteer brings a unique set of skills and talents. We are incredibly grateful for all that volunteers do to support our service users.
  • Most of our volunteer opportunities don’t need any special qualifications. We’ll make sure you get all the training and support you need. All we ask is that you're kind, open-minded and passionate about supporting people.
  • Everyone is welcome at Change Grow Live. As a volunteer you will be treated with respect and accepted for who you are. You don’t need to have personal experience of drug and alcohol recovery to get involved

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Hazel Tulloch l hazel.tulloch@cgl.org.uk l 07827976681