Volunteer Young Persons Drug and Alcohol Community Champion

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

Volunteering as a Young Person's Drug and Alcohol Community Champion allows you to raise awareness, run educational outreach, and support early intervention initiatives for youth struggling with substance misuse . Volunteers act as peer mentors and community advocates to reduce substance-related harm among young people.

Responsibilities

• Build positive relationships with, individuals, families and carers in all diverse communities.
• Support staff to engage and support people in the local area at community venues.
• Support staff to provide confidential support, easily accessible, non-judgemental advice around drugs and alcohol use and harm reduction.
• Support people to refer into our service.
• Signpost to other support services where appropriate.
• Raise concerns you are experiencing or that you have about others with staff as required (e.g. safeguarding).

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.