Harm Reduction Volunteer

4 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Humankind Charity Full time

**Vacancy No**
- VN2942

**Employment Type**
- Volunteer

**Contracted hours**
- 7.50

**Work Pattern**

**Location Postal Code**
- LS2 7DJ

**Location Region**

**Location Country**
- United Kingdom

**Location**
- Kirkgate - Leeds LS2 7DJ

**Job Details**

**Harm Reduction Volunteer**

Forward Leeds is the alcohol and drug service in Leeds for adults, young people and families. Forward Leeds is delivered by 4 services in partnership, led by Humankind.
This exciting volunteer role would suit someone with an empathetic, non-judgmental attitude who can build strong working relationships with others. This is a fantastic opportunity to get hands on experience in a drug and alcohol service and put your passion for supporting and advocating for vulnerable people to great use.

The work of the Hep C Team includes:

- Reduce stigma and discrimination against people who use drugs. Treating people with dignity and respect.
- Provide harm reduction advice in relation to the substances people who access the service are using.
- Provide equipment that meets national best practice standards.
- Raise awareness about how to reduce the risk of drug related harms including injection site infections, overdoses and how to manage them.
- Promote the use of take-home Naloxone (THN) and training how to use Naloxone.
- Carry out dry blood spot testing (DBST) and pathway into Hepatitis C treatment to reduce transmission of blood-borne viruses (BBVs).
- Promote and facilitate referrals to additional sources of support and advice as needed.

Details of the role / tasks
There are 3 vacancies for this post. 1 at Irford House Seacroft, 1 at Kirkgate in Leeds City Centre, 1 at Armley.

Volunteers in this role will:

- Support the team to provide a welcoming, inclusive and accessible service
- Become familiar with injecting and harm reduction equipment and issue these as appropriate
- Provide harm reduction information
- Maintain a high level of service delivery guided by our Policy & Procedures
- Record accurately the amount of equipment distributed and returned
- Feedback and communicate with the team and participate in debriefs / meetings as required
- Take part in induction, mandatory training and relevant ongoing training (this includes a monthly training session with the city wide team)
- Report any risk or safeguarding issues to a named person
- Maintain appropriate boundaries at all times
- Ensure confidentiality at all times
- Ensure the environment is kept clean and tidy
- Perform other duties which may be requested, required or directed and which are within the person’s capabilities and are reasonable.

Volunteers will be fully trained, inducted and supported to work in the Needle Syringe Programmes where service users can get new injecting equipment, return used needles for safe disposal and get advice on safer injecting and harm reduction.

**Personal qualities**
- Skills we would like you to have:

- Personal or professional experience of substance use
- Good computer skills
- Willingness to learn about issues surrounding substance use
- Ability to work within our harm reduction philosophy
- Able to take direction & use initiative & assertion
- Ability to and/or interest in, engaging with people in an outreach context
- Ability to respond calmly and appropriately in difficult situations
- Good listening and communication skills
- Non judgemental
- Professional
- Honest and committed
- Excellent time keeping

**Our workplace values are**:

- Honest: we are open and realistic, building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change.
- Committed: we are passionate about being the best that we can be, and we do this by keeping people at the heart of everything that we do.
- Inventive: we are ambitious, drawing together skills and resources to innovate and adapt in determined pursuit of our mission.

Interviews - Monday 31st July

**Who are we**
Humankind is one of England’s most successful home-grown charities. We provide free, confidential support for alcohol, drugs, housing, or mental health in friendly local places across the UK. We are committed to fair chances for all and making sure everyone can access the help and support they need to realise their potential. By joining our teams of passionate individuals, you will be contributing to making this happen. You can really make a difference by believing in our service users and their ability to make positive changes when they don’t always believe in themselves.

We are incredibly proud of the work that we do to help address health inequalities in England. Every five minutes, an individual accesses one of our services, and we have supported over 90,000 people across all our services last year. Check out our impact report here to read more about the important work that we have done.

Humankind is an equal opportunities employer
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