Volunteer - Healthcare Support

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?

As a Healthcare Support Volunteer for CGL Warwickshire, you will be a valued member of the Healthcare Team, supporting them in the day-to-day delivery of health and wellbeing interventions. Our service users’ health and wellbeing is important to us so you will be playing a pivotal role in supporting the promotion of healthier lifestyles and harm reduction interventions, for example providing naloxone within our services and community hubs. You will be supporting clinics by working with the people who use out services to prepare them for a medical review. This will include taking blood pressure, screening for substances and discussing expectations. Following training you will support the facilitation and delivery of Blood Borne Virus screening and vaccinations. You will be working closely with staff and partner agencies supporting people who use our services to access treatment and clinical interventions.

Key Activities:
• Support the team to undertake healthcare assessments
• Complete and follow up on referrals to specialist care providers and share outcomes with Health and Wellbeing Nurses and/or Lead Clinician
• Screen for blood borne viruses and support the provision of pre and post blood borne virus test discussions
• Contribute to care planning and referrals to Hepatology and GUM services to encourage access to specialist interventions
• Support the delivery of clinical interventions within the service, such as medical reviews, titration appointments and Buvidal clinics
• Complete blood pressure screenings with people who use our services
• Train and provide people who use our services with naloxone
• Record activities and interventions undertaken
• Participate in the promotion of health and wellbeing interventions
• Support the delivery of detox interventions
• Assist and carry out drug screening processes including breathalyser, urine and saliva tests
• Support the delivery of community health clinics and interventions
• Liaise with other partner agencies including primary care and pharmacies
• Help support people who use our services to provide us with feedback on their views and experiences

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:

Temi Odeyemi

temi.odeyemi@cgl.org.uk

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level