Volunteer Outreach Support
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Monthly Salary:
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Overview
Key Activities:
- Create a welcoming environment within our hubs taking telephone calls and referrals.
- As part of a team target known areas to assertively engage with rough sleepers/service users and respond to referrals where appropriate
- Build positive relationships with rough sleepers working with them 1.2.1 empowering them to achieve their goals
- Carry necessary supplies such as food paperwork and other provisions
- Attend outreach centres community venues and satellite services to engage and support service users/rough sleepers
- Work closely with partner agencies and the community including attend meetings where appropriate
- Support rough sleepers/service user by signposting and advocating for them to access support being a central person between them and other services
- To ensure that you are aware of and follow the outreach risk assessment/risk management plan thats are in place
- Keep records of your contacts
- Alongside staff identify ways to remove barriers and find solutions to help engage rough sleepers/ service users.
- Offer and provide overdose awareness information/ naloxone kit
- Provide confidential easily accessible non-judgmental advice around substance misuse safer injecting overdose and what to do in an emergency
- Work with staff to identify service users who have disengaged from services.
- Conduct home visits to engage service users
Responsibilities
In carrying out the above duties the post holder will:
- To help Change Grow Live fulfil its role in offering the best service to our clients.
- To perform your volunteering role to the best of your ability.
- To follow the Change Grow Lives procedures and standards including health and safety and equal opportunities in relation to our staff volunteers and clients.
- To maintain the confidential information of Change Grow Live and of our clients; adhering to Change Grow Lives policies and procedures
- To meet the time commitments and standards which have been mutually agreed and to give reasonable notice so other arrangements can be made when this is not possible.
Closing Date
7/1/2026
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:
Rich Duggan
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.
Key Skills
- Fundraising
- Communication skills
- Physical Examinations
- Hospice Care
- Workers' Compensation Law
- Computer Literacy
- Grant Writing
- Music Therapy
- Memory Care
- Public Speaking
- Volunteer Management
- Writing Skills
