Lived Experience Recovery Volunteer

2 weeks ago


Seaton with Newbiggin West ED, United Kingdom Humankind Charity Full time

**Vacancy No**
- VN4159

**Employment Type**
- Full-Time

**Hours Per Week**
- 15.00

**Work Pattern**
- Monday to Friday

**Location**
- Northumberland Recovery Partnership

**Location Region**

**Location City**
- Northumberland

**Location Postal Code**
- NE63 8BL

**Interview Date**
- 07 Jun 2024

**Job Details**

Humankind Northumberland Adult Recovery Service, is a public health commissioned service, supporting adults in creating behaviour change regarding substance misuse and lifestyles linked to substance use.Lived Experience Recovery Volunteers will supplement treatment system delivery through (but not limited to
- Supporting existing service users in their recovery journey.
- Offering peer support to clients.
- Supporting the engagement of hard-to-reach groups.
- Raising awareness of the Service and other support services.
- Co-facilitating and supporting Open Access Recovery Groups
- Co-production of new recovery groups
- Inform clients of the recovery community
- Our lived experience volunteers act as role models for recovery
- To promote the benefits of treatment and recovery to new and potential service users

**Essential Criteria**
Professional
Honest and committed
Good time keeping
Able to work as part of a team, on own initiative and to instruction
An understanding of Humankind - information is available on our website and you can call a specific project to make enquires
A genuine interest in being part of the mission and vision of Humankind
Ability to maintain professional boundaries, adhere to Humankind policies, engage in supervision and complete relevant training
**Desirable Criteria**
Calm natured
Excellent verbal communication skills
Non judgemental
Understanding and knowledge of harms of substance use
Aware of confidentiality and professional boundaries
Able to volunteer in line with policies and guidance
Able to attend supervision and training
**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.

**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.

**What can Humankind offer you**
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses

Happy, Healthy You - our wellbeing offers for our workforce

**Humankind is an equal opportunities employer**

**Salary Period**
- Per Annum

**Vacancy Salary Range**
- x

**DBS Requirement**
- Volunteer Basic

**Does role require Police/Prison vetting?**
- Not Applicable

**Driving licence required for role?**
- No

**Applications Close Date**
- 03 Jun 2024



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