Change Grow Live
Volunteer Healthcare Support
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Overview
Our mission is to help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. Volunteers are essential to Change Grow Live, bringing valuable skills, for some lived experience, and passion that strengthen our teams, improve outcomes, help us break down barriers and support meaningful change for the people we support. We are committed to valuing, supporting, and developing our volunteers.
Responsibilities
As a Healthcare Support Volunteer, you will be a valued member of the Healthcare team, supporting them in the day-to-day delivery of health and wellbeing interventions. Our service users’ health and wellbeing is important to us so you will be playing a pivotal role in supporting the promotion of healthier lifestyles and harm reduction interventions, for example providing naloxone within our services and community hubs. You will be supporting clinics by working with the people who use our services to prepare them for a medical review. This will include taking blood pressure, screening for substances and discussing expectations. Following training you will support the facilitation and delivery of Blood Borne Virus screening and vaccinations. You will be working closely with staff and partner agencies supporting people who use our services to access treatment and clinical interventions.
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Key Activities:
- Support the team to undertake healthcare assessments
- Complete and follow up on referrals to specialist care providers and share outcomes with Senior / Health and Wellbeing Nurses and/or Lead Clinician
- Screen for blood borne viruses and support the provision of pre and post blood borne virus test discussions
- Contribute to care planning and referrals to Hepatology and GUM services to encourage access to specialist interventions
- Support the delivery of clinical interventions within the service, such as medical reviews, titration appointments and Buvidal clinics
- Complete blood pressure screenings with people who use our services
- Train and provide people who use our services with naloxone
- Record activities and interventions undertaken
- Participate in the promotion of health and wellbeing interventions
- Support the delivery of detox interventions
- Assist and carry out drug screening processes including breathalyser, urine and saliva tests
- Support the delivery of community health clinics and interventions
- Liaise with other partner agencies including primary care and pharmacies
- Help support people who use our services to provide us with feedback on their views and experiences
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Candidates selected for interview will be invited to attend on 6th October.
Please note that, if successful in this recruitment process, you will be required to attend the following mandatory training dates:
- Tuesday 3rd November 2026 - Induction 10am to 4pm
- Tuesday 10th November 2026 - Boundaries and Confidentiality 10am to 4pm
- Tuesday 17th November 2026 - Drug and Alcohol Awareness 10am to 4pm
- Tuesday 24th November - Harm Minimisation and Naloxone 10am to 4pm
- Tuesday 1st December - Shared Lived Experience Framework 10am to 1pm
Closing Date
18/9/2026
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:
Jacqui Stevens | Jacqui.stevens@cgl.org.uk
Please note that 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.
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