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Harm Reduction Volunteer

Location Wisbech-Cambridgeshire
Job ID 2024-12907
Number of Vacancies Remaining
1
Category
Volunteering in Substance Misuse Services
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Overview

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?

Responsibilities

  • Purpose of role:
  • At Change Grow Live we strive to ensure our services are warm and welcoming environments. Your role is to be the first point of contact within the service greeting all our visitors promptly in a friendly and courteous manner.
  • Your role will be to support the team in reducing the harm caused by drug misuse, by offering service users the knowledge, advice, and equipment to enable them to keep themselves safe.
  • A key part of the role will be to support services response to harm reduction inventions including the promotion and delivery of Needle and Syringe Provisions, Naloxone and Dry Blood Spot Testing within servicers and the wider community. Your primary aim will be engaging with injecting drug users advising them of the benefits of Naloxone, HIV and Hepatitis testing and safer sexual health advice. You will also encourage and promote treatment options within the service as well as signposting and referral to other support services available. You will be actively engaging with people within the local communities, offering information, advice and interventions as well as creating a safe environment through the safe disposal of needle and syringe equipment
  • Delivering harm reduction interventions can be a faced paced role with only a small amount of time to engage those who use our services, so the ability to build trust work and effectively engage with people is needed. No two days are the same and you can really make a difference in helping to keep people safe. You will be provided with all the skills, knowledge, and support to undertake the role

 

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

Bex Poyser | Bex.poyser@gmail.com | 07778145545

 

Please note that we require you to be 18 years of age or older to be considered for this volunteering role.

 

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.

The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.