Volunteer Young Persons Resilience and Education Outreach

Volunteering with Eclypse Young Persons Service within Change Grow Live is a great way to make a real difference in people’s lives whilst gaining valuable experience. Whether you want to give back to your community, develop new skills, or meet like-minded people, there are plenty of reasons to get involved.

Where: Manchester city centre, at the office and operational sites in the local community.

When: We will work with you to be as flexible as possible, whether you can donate one day a week of your time or more. The core activity of this role occurs during the day (9:00am – 5:00pm), but may involve some evenings or weekends, by prior arrangement.

Key activities of the role –

• Support to engage young people who have drug and alcohol issues and provide them with advice, support and structured interventions to support their health and wellbeing needs
• Support Resilience Workers to carry out comprehensive assessments, risk assessments & plans and contribute to the development of recovery planning
• Support in the preparation and delivery of outreach groupwork sessions in local schools, colleges, and youth clubs to young people
• Document all Service User contact on case management systems in a timely manner
• Support Resilience Workers with one-to-one key work sessions; increasing drug and alcohol awareness and delivering harm reduction advice
• Work towards holding a small caseload of low-risk service users, coordinating their treatment options, and empowering them to achieve their goals
• Raise concerns you are experiencing or that you have about others with staff as required (e.g. safeguarding)

An important part of the role is listening to people and sharing what you have heard with the service, representing their views, and using their feedback to help inform how we develop and improve our services. You will help to ensure people hear about any decisions or changes that are made because of their feedback. You will be working with Change Grow Live staff and connecting with the wider community.

We also expect an assertive approach to ensuring the safety and well-being of all children, young people and adults, and applicants to these posts will need to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to best safeguarding practice. We are actively recruiting people who can offer us 1 – 3 days per week to work within our drug & alcohol service; we are specifically looking for people who are keen and enthusiastic and would be able to commit to staying as a volunteer with us for up to one year.  

Interviews will take place after 30/03/26

All candidates must be available for training which will commence from 20/04/26 and will involve one day/week over seven weeks as follows:

Mondays at Bradnor Point, Wythenshawe, M22 4TF

Wednesdays at The Old School House, Clayton, M11 4HA

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