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Peer Mentor

Location Cambridge-Cambridgeshire
Job ID 2025-16272
Number of Vacancies Remaining
2
Category
Volunteering with Homeless People
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Overview

Do you have lived experience of drug, alcohol recovery and homelessness?

 

Are you ready to give something back?  Do you want to develop your skills and take on a bit of challenge?

 

We are looking people with previous lived experience to become part of our Peer Mentor team. 

Do you have minimum of 8 hours spare per week to volunteer?

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

 

  • demonstrating visible recovery and acting as a positive role model as you support people in recovery and the wider service

 

  • supporting our reception, playing a vital role in helping people coming into treatment to feel welcome and safe

 

  • assisting with the delivery of recovery group sessions

 

  • helping out with day-to-day tasks within the service

 

  • offering a listening ear and ad hoc support to people using our services

 

  • helping us in promoting the service

 

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

Sham Ahmed | Shamshi.ahmed@cgl.org.uk | 07880518553

 

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.