Volunteer Young Person's Resilience

Overview

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.

 

Would you like to join our growing team of volunteers and make a real difference?

Responsibilities

A Young Person's Resilience Worker is a frontline role supporting our Young Persons Service (aged 10–24) facing challenges with substance use. To help young people reduce risk, build confidence, and develop healthy life skills through one-to-one support, group programs and educational workshops.

 

Key Activities:

• Support to engage young people who have drug and alcohol issues and provide them with advice, support and structured interventions to support their health and wellbeing needs.
• Support Resilience Workers to carry out comprehensive assessments, risk assessments & plans and contribute to the development of recovery planning.
• Document all Service User contact on case management systems in a timely manner.
• Support Resilience Workers with one-to-one key work sessions; increasing drug and alcohol awareness and delivering harm reduction advice.

Who Can Apply

• You must be 18 or older.

Benefits of Volunteering

• Travel expenses from your home to your service are covered.
• You receive comprehensive training and support.
• You build valuable skills and make a real difference in the Liverpool area.

Training:

Attendance on training is an essential part for the volunteer role.

• Mandatory: Volunteer induction training
• Mandatory: Boundaries/Confidentiality training
• Required: Drug awareness training
• Required: Harm reduction training
• Required: Alcohol awareness training

Closing Date

19/7/2026

If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:

Alison Fleet | Alison.Fleet@cgl.org.uk | 07471593468

 

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.