Rehabit is looking for volunteers with personal lived experience of addiction or substance abuse to join our team and help those struggling with drugs and alcohol.
What difference will you make?
Your role will help people struggling with drugs and alcohol who are stuck in the mental health system or falling through the cracks to receive much‑needed support, guidance and counselling.
What are we looking for?
Qualifications and Experience
Lived experience of addiction and experience offering peer support or working with addicts/substance abusers. Ideal volunteers will have at least three years of experience advising, mentoring, or advocating on behalf of such clients, and a good working knowledge of the social care sector.
Key Skills
- Advice‑giving and guidance skills
- Confidence having conversations with people they don’t know
- Coaching or mentoring
- Listening and reflecting
- Empathy
- Open about own recovery story
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Flexible
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Confidence working with people from diverse backgrounds
What will you be doing?
Peer supporters will connect with clients ready for recovery, acting as the first point of contact and helping to channel them into our in‑house counselling services or 12‑step fellowships. They may also join community drop‑in sessions at partner locations such as community centres, food banks, residential centres, and hostels. Initially these sessions will be based mainly in Islington.
Peers can focus on one of the two role types or a combination of both. The main goals are to identify and support clients, not to build long‑term relationships. Workloads may vary with low client volume and fluctuations over time.
All volunteers will need a DBS check (or an existing DBS on the Update Service) and will receive mandatory training plus in‑house coaching and charity orientation sessions.
Our primary service areas are Islington, with additional outreach in Haringey, Camden, Barnet, and Enfield.
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