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Assertive Outreach Support Volunteer

Location Edinburgh-Scotland
Job ID 2025-16944
Number of Vacancies Remaining
1
Category
Volunteering with Adults
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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?

 

Your role will be to support the team to engage and support individuals who are experiencing substance misuse issues. You will be responding to referrals, targeting known locations within the community actively engaging and building a positive relationship with people who are experiencing problems with substance misuse.

 

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.
  • If there isn’t a specific volunteering role listed for the service in your area, or have a skill you would like to donate to us you can use this listing to express your interest
  • 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:

Dave Sheriff - David.Sheriff@cgl.org.uk

 

Closing Date

1/8/2025

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

Dave Sheriff | David.Sheriff@cgl.org.uk | 07894964275

 

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 Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme 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.