Harm Reduction Volunteer

Overview:
**_ We are seeking Harm Reduction Volunteers. _**_Would you like to join our growing team of volunteers, and make a real difference?_**

Volunteers make an enormous contribution to our work at Change Grow Live.

Last year over 1400 volunteers donated over a quarter of million hours of their time to our organisation.

**Responsibilities**:
Your role will be to support the team in reducing the harm caused by drug misuse, by offering service users the knowledge, advice, and equipment to enable them to keep themselves safe.

A key part of the role will be to support services response to harm reduction inventions including the promotion and delivery of Needle and Syringe Provisions, Naloxone and Dry Blood Spot Testing within servicers and the wider community. Your primary aim will be engaging with injecting drug users advising them of the benefits of Naloxone, HIV and Hepatitis testing and safer sexual health advice. You will also encourage and promote treatment options within the service as well as signposting and referral to other support services available. You will be actively engaging with people within the local communities, offering information, advice and interventions as well as creating a safe environment through the safe disposal of needle and syringe equipment.

Engaging with individuals who require Blood Bourne Virus tests, contacting them and keeping track of who is due a test and booking them. You will be making phone calls and booking appointments.

Delivering harm reduction interventions can be a faced paced role with only a small amount of time to engage those who use our services, so the ability to build trust work and effectively engage with people is needed. 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, knowledge, and support to undertake the role. You will be provided with training on how to complete Blood Bourne Virus testing.

**Volunteering at Change Grow Live**

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- Volunteers contribute to Change Grow Live in a variety of ways. From Admin Volunteers to Service User Reps, from Peer Mentors to Healthcare Support Volunteers, from Independent Visitors to Community Mentors each volunteer brings a unique set of skills and talents. We are incredibly grateful for all that volunteers do to support our service users.
- If there isn’t a specific volunteering role listed for the service in your area, or have a skill you would like to donate to us you can use this listing to express your interest
- Most of our volunteer opportunities don’t need any special qualifications. We’ll make sure you get all the training and support you need. All we ask is that you're kind, open-minded and passionate about supporting people.
- Everyone is welcome at Change Grow Live. As a volunteer you will be treated with respect and accepted for who you are. You don’t need to have personal experience of drug and alcohol recovery to get involved.