Outreach Recovery Support Volunteer

7 months ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Change Grow Live Full time

**Overview**:
Making the decision to enter treatment can be an intimidating experience for the people we support. You can make a difference.

As an Outreach support volunteer, you will play a pivotal role within the local community promoting our services and engaging with our service users/individuals/rough sleepers and partner agencies.

**Responsibilities**:
Your role will be to support the team to engage and support individuals who are experiencing homelessness and have multiple needs/substance misuse. You will be responding to referrals, targeting known locations within the community, actively engaging and building a positive relationship with people who are rough sleeping/experiencing problems with substance misuse.

As part of a team, you will be working with partner agencies, signposting individuals, empowering, and assisting them to access relevant services. Advocating for them and supporting them to achieve their goals and make positive changes, as well as managing expectations of all involved.

Outreach can be a fast paced and challenging role so you will need to be responsive and adaptable with the ability to work quickly and effectively. This role can involve working anti-social hours and at times in adverse weather conditions so you will need to be to be flexible and resilient.

No two days are the same and you can really make a difference in helping to keep people safe. You will be provided with all the skills, training, and support to undertake the role. Supporting rough sleepers is really rewarding and you can make a real difference to somebody’s life. This is the perfect role for a sociable and outgoing person who wants to help their community.



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