Volunteer Young Persons Resilience

Role Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Young Person’s Resilience Volunteer to join our friendly and supportive team. The Corner provides support and treatment to young people under 18 in the Sheffield area who are experiencing problems with drugs and alcohol. This is a great opportunity to make a difference in the lives of young people.

Change Grow Live is one of the largest providers of substance misuse services in the United Kingdom. Volunteering with us is a great opportunity for you to support and inspire other people while gaining new skills and experience. Our core values are ‘be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.

• Support to engage young people who have drug and alcohol issues and provide them with advice, support and structured interventions to support their health and wellbeing needs
• Support Resilience Workers to carry out comprehensive assessments, risk assessments & plans and contribute to the development of recovery planning
• Document all Service User contact on case management systems in a timely manner
• Support Resilience Workers with one-to-one key work sessions; increasing drug and alcohol awareness and delivering harm reduction advice
• Work towards holding a small caseload of low-risk service users, coordinating their treatment options, and empowering them to achieve their goals
• Raise concerns you are experiencing or that you have about others with staff as required (e.g. safeguarding)

Travel and lunch expenses will be reimbursed as per CGL volunteer policy.

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.