Community Volunteer - Cafes - Livingston
Overview:
Interested in Volunteering? We are looking to build our team of volunteers. Are you over 18 years old and interested in working within an adults drug and alcohol service supporting people in their recovery and engaging in the recovery community?If so, the Community Volunteer Recovery Café role may be for you!
The Recovery Café’s run twice a week in the afternoons, we have two locations in West Lothian, Blackburn on a Monday and Livingston on a Thursday. The cafe's are a place for the recovery community to come together, relax and socialise while enjoying a tea/coffee and some light snacks.
This is a rewarding role for someone who has approximately 4 hours once or twice a week while the recovery café’s are running on a Mon & Thur afternoon. The role is suitable for someone who is reliable, friendly, punctual and wants to help support people to connect and engage in the recovery community.
Responsibilities:
The West Lothian Recovery Service has a small team of volunteers, and we are looking to add to this to enable us to continue to develop this resource and make recovery more visible and accessible with our recovery cafés throughout West Lothian.
Our community recovery café’s run twice a week. We have a couple of locations in West Lothian, which are in Blackburn on a Monday afternoon and Livingston on a Thursday afternoon. The cafés are a place for the recovery community to come together, relax and socialise while enjoying a tea/coffee and some light snacks.
The community recovery cafés are run by staff with the support of our volunteers. The recovery cafés are open to our service users and those of the local recovery community. It’s an opportunity to enjoy some social activity, light snacks and to find out more about our service and how we can support people in recovery.All this helps to promote positive feelings of wellbeing and inclusivity through both individual and group interactions, supporting loneliness, isolation and a sense of connection and togetherness through social engagement and communication.
Volunteers will have good communication skills, be aware of the recovery community, the ability to work within professional boundaries and maintain confidentiality, at all times. You will be working alongside the staff team, other volunteers and people in the recovery community.Volunteers will be trained in how to administer Naloxone and with training will be able to support people with information about this to keep them safe.
Additionally, volunteers may have the opportunity to gain other skills and support the team by covering the duty volunteer rota. This may involve being in the office undertaking light office tasks relevant to your role.
Successful applicants, if interested, may also have the opportunity to extend their skills at our Friday Box-fit group. For this we would be looking for someone who is able to support the staff member and follow instructions, as described below in the key activities.
The role of Community Volunteer is a rewarding role for someone who has approximately 4 hours once or twice a week while the recovery cafés are running. You should be friendly, punctual, have good boundaries and want to help support people to connect in the recovery community.
If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:: Ann Holloway | ann.holloway@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 Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme check at an enhanced level.