Peer support volunteer lived of addiction - Volunteer

Peer support volunteer with lived experience of addiction

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Rehabit are looking for volunteers with lived experience of addiction/substance abuse to join our team helping those struggling with drugs and alcohol. Your role will help people who are stuck in the system or falling through the cracks to get much-needed support, guidance and counselling.

What are we looking for?

• Lived experience of addiction and experience offering peer support or working with addicts/substance abusers in some capacity.
• At least three years’ experience advising or mentoring clients, or advocating on their behalf, and a good working knowledge of the social care sector.

Key Skills

• Advice‑giving and guidance skills.
• Confidence having conversations with people they don’t know.
• Coaching or mentoring.
• Be able to listen and reflect.
• Empathy.
• Be open about their own recovery story.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Flexible.
• Ability to work unsupervised.
• Confidence working with people from diverse backgrounds.

What will you be doing?

We define peer support as someone with lived experience of addiction who practices a recovery programme and knows how to work with those ready for recovery or in early recovery. Specifically, there are two types of role:

The ideal volunteers will have at least three years’ experience advising or mentoring clients, or advocating on their behalf, and a good working knowledge of the social care sector.

Peer supporters can focus on one of the above roles or a combination of both.

The aim is to identify and support clients into our in‑house counselling service. We also guide clients to 12‑step fellowships if they are willing.

We deal with a low volume of clients; people who are stuck in the system or falling through the cracks. This means there can be ebbs and flows in client numbers.

Peer supporters will need a DBS check unless they hold one on the Update Service, and, as well as mandatory training, there will be an in‑house peer support coaching and charity orientation sessions.

Our main area is Islington but we also cover Haringey, Camden, Barnet and Enfield.