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Volunteer Young Person's Resilience

Location Liverpool-Merseyside
Job ID 2026-20530
Number of Vacancies Remaining
1
Category
Volunteering in Substance Misuse Services for Young People
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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

A Young Person's Resilience Worker is a frontline role supporting our Young Persons Service (aged 10–24) facing challenges with substance use. To help young people reduce risk, build confidence, and develop healthy life skills through one-to-one support, group programs and educational workshops.

 

Key Activities:

  • 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.
  • 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.

Who Can Apply

  • You must be 18 or older.

Benefits of Volunteering

  • Travel expenses from your home to your service are covered.
  • You receive comprehensive training and support.
  • You build valuable skills and make a real difference in the Liverpool area.

Training:

Attendance on training is an essential part for the volunteer role.

  • Mandatory: Volunteer induction training
  • Mandatory: Boundaries/Confidentiality training
  • Required: Drug awareness training
  • Required: Harm reduction training
  • Required: Alcohol awareness training

Closing Date

19/7/2026

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

Alison Fleet | Alison.Fleet@cgl.org.uk | 07471593468

 

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.