Lived Experienced Peer Volunteer

Employer
ST GILES TRUST

Location
West Midlands Area (Bloxwich, Bournville, Coventry, Oldbury, Perry Barr, Stechford, Wolverhampton)

Salary
Volunteer - Travel expenses only

Closing date
26 Jun 2026

Contract
Voluntary

Hours
Part time

Sector
Charities, Cause, Volunteering, Advocacy, Social welfare

Employee benefits & values
Core hour flexibility

Job Details

Company

Job Details

£Volunteer - Travel expenses only
Part Time, 14 hours per week

Flexible - Monday to Friday

West Midlands Area - based around local treatment services - Bloxwich, Bournville, Coventry, Oldbury,

Perry Barr, Stechford and Wolverhampton

Closing date: 31st August 2026 at 9.00am

Interview date: Rolling Basis

Ref LEP 252

Are you a proactive, collaborative and compassionate individual with proven experience of working positively with adults to engage successfully despite 'challenging' behaviour? Do you have the ability to be a positive role model, demonstrating the virtues of engaging with treatment support services?

If so, St Giles is looking for a Lived Experienced Peer Volunteer to join our team and provide interventions and build meaningful, peer-led relationships with service users to encourage them to engage in drug and alcohol treatment following arrest.

About St Giles Trust

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need. Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About this key role

As a Peer Volunteer, you will increase client engagement with drug and alcohol treatment services by providing vital peer-led support and building trust and motivation among a client group that has been historically disengaged/not offered support previously. You will provide holistic, short-term intervention to bridge the gap between referral and full treatment engagement, capture client experiences and barriers to improve service design and accessibility and develop a strong service user voice to inform future service improvements.

Areas of support from Peer Volunteers may also include initial engagement and motivation such as welcome calls, check-ins, peer-led conversations and motivational chats over coffee. You may also offer practical support such as appointment reminders, transport assistance and paperwork support, plus help to build positive routines such as activity-based engagement and supporting small lifestyle changes, including meal planning, budgeting, and time management.

What we are looking for

Personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group (i.e. experience of substance misuse and recovery)
Proven experience of working in a high intensity environment, being self-motivating, with an ability to effectively manage your own wellbeing
Knowledge of the issues facing those arrested for potential criminal offences
Knowledge of, and commitment to, safeguarding practices and policies
The ability to use monitoring systems to record all aspects of the work
Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written.

Please note: as an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Child Workforce with Child Barred list DBS.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuroexpansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.

To apply visit our website via the apply button.

We will be reviewing applications as they are received and reserve the right to close this advert early if a suitable candidate is appointed. We therefore strongly encourage early applications to avoid any disappointment.

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Are you a proactive, collaborative and compassionate individual with proven experience of working positively with adults to engage successfully despite 'challenging' behaviour? Do you have the ability to be a positive role model, demonstrating the virtues of engaging with treatment support services?,

Personal experience of the criminal justice system or lived experience of the issues facing this client group (i.e. experience of substance misuse and recovery)
Proven experience of working in a high intensity environment, being self-motivating, with an ability to effectively manage your own wellbeing
Knowledge of the issues facing those arrested for potential criminal offences
Knowledge of, and commitment to, safeguarding practices and policies
The ability to use monitoring systems to record all aspects of the work
Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building and communication skills, verbal and written.

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