Volunteer Peer Mentor
Volunteer Peer Mentor
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Job Description
Overview
Have you overcome an addiction to drugs and/or alcohol Are you thinking about how you can now volunteer to help others experiencing those difficulties
Change Grow Live specialises in drug and alcohol services and we are looking for people who have had these experiences in their pasts to join our team!
Our Peer Support Services offer volunteering opportunities to people who have lived experience of these issues where you can draw from your own experience and use this to support others who are currently struggling. Our wider team consists of 2 unique teams:
- Working with people who are in treatment for Drug or Alcohol addiction
- Working with those whose Drug and Alcohol addiction leads to offending
Responsibilities
With this role youll be working as part of the Recovery Service peer mentoring team in Brighton and Hove. Your role will be allocated to the best suited team depending on your lived experience. Following recruitment and training you would then start working with people who are currently struggling with these experiences.
Clients are referred to our Service because they would like support from someone who has been there before we match them to a suitable Peer Mentor. Peer Mentors will work with clients on a 1:1 outreach basis as added support to their existing support network. Whether youre talking about goals in a coffee shop helping people get to appointments going for walks or researching job opportunities together no two sessions will be the same. We treat everyone as an individual so having lived experience being flexible curious and a good listener are key.
As a Peer Mentor we can tailor your role to suit your abilities confidence and experience. You can do as much or as little as you like and we would always make sure you are comfortable in carrying out your role.
This is what one ofour Volunteer Mentors had to say:I like the team spirit that we all bring something different and we always put the people who use our service first.
In return for your volunteering we offer high levels of support to all our Peer Mentors by allocating you with your own supervisor equipping you with the tools and knowledge to carry out your role through our gold standard training which comes with a qualification ongoing training experiences with access to Change Grow Lives Learning and Development platform and support to sustain your own recoveries and achieve your volunteering with us you will gain valuable experience and skills as well as making a real difference.
Our values are to be compassionate open and bold. If this sounds like you wed love to hear from you!
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:
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