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Healthcare Support Volunteer

Location Burnley-Lancashire
Job ID 2024-15296
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?

 

Based in Burnley, Lancashire you will support the Healthcare Team in their delivery of Wellbeing and Harm Reduction interventions. You will be fully trained to support with assessment, basic observations, home visits/outreach, supporting with Alcohol detoxes and will need to be open and flexible in your approach.

Responsibilities

Volunteering at Change Grow Live

 

  • 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.

Training:

 

You will need to be available for the following dates for training. This will be face to face and you will be required to attend one session for each topic:

 

Induction Training 26/02/25 (Burnley) 28/02/25 (Accrington)

Boundaries Training 05/03/25 (Burnley) 07/03/25 (Accrington)

Drug Awareness Training 02/04/25 (Burnley) 04/04/25 (Accrington)

Alcohol Awareness Training 09/04/25 (Burnley) 11/04/25 (Accrington)

Safeguarding Training 16/04/25 (Burnley) 18/04/25 (Accrington)

Trauma Informed Care Training 23/04/25 (Burnley) 25/04/25 (Accrington)

 

Interview Dates

 

Interviews will take place face to face (wherever possible) at Burnley Inspire W/C 03/02/25

 

 

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

 

Closing Date

24/1/2025

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

Nina Cole | nina.cole@cgl.org.uk | 07435983821

 

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.