Volunteer Healthcare Support
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Overview
Volunteering with Change Grow Live isa great wayto make a real difference in peoples lives whilstgaining 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.
As a Healthcare Support Volunteer you are an equal and valued member of the Healthcare teamsupporting them in the day-to-day delivery of health and wellbeing interventions within Waltham Forest Our service users health and wellbeing is really important to us so you will be playing a pivotal role in supporting the promotion of healthier lifestyles and harm reduction interventions including providing naloxone within our service. You will be supporting clinics by working with clients 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 Bourne Virus screening and vaccinations as part of the healthcare team. You will be working closely with staff and partner agencies supporting service users to access treatment and clinical interventions.
Would you like to join our growing team of volunteers and make a real difference
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.
Responsibilities
- Support the team to undertake healthcare assessments
- Complete and follow up on referrals to specialist care providers and share outcomes with Senior / Health and Wellbeing Nurses and/or Lead Clinician.
- Screen for blood borne viruses and contribute to care planning to assure effective referrals to Hepatology and GUM services to enable assessment for specialist treatment. Support the provision of pre and post blood borne virus test discussion.
- Prepare service users ready for clinics
- Support the delivery of clinics
- Record activities and interventions undertaken
- As part of the team participate in the promotion of health and wellbeing interventions
- Support the delivery of detox interventions
- Assist and carry out screening processes including urine and saliva tests.
- Support the delivery of community health clinics and interventions
- Liaise with other partner agencies including primary care and pharmacies
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 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 on 11/03/26
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If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:
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
