Harm Reduction Peer Educator

Change Grow Live; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to making a difference in the community. As a Harm Reduction Peer Educator, you'll play a vital role in educating individuals about overdose awareness and harm reduction strategies. This position offers the chance to gain valuable skills and experience while directly impacting lives in your community. You'll work closely with peers and receive ongoing support and training, ensuring you feel confident and equipped to make a meaningful contribution. If you're compassionate, open, and bold, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in harm reduction and overdose awareness training.
• Ability to engage and educate community members.

Responsibilities

• Train peers in harm reduction and overdose awareness.
• Provide naloxone training and supplies to community members.

Skills

Flexibility

Listening Skills

Community Engagement

Education

Experience in Harm Reduction

Lived Experience of Drug Use

Job description

Overview

CGL Harm Reduction Peer Educators are a great community asset and will complement the existing provision of overdose awareness, Injecting equipment and naloxone training. Under the scheme, Harm Reduction Peer Educators (HRPE) will make direct supplies of naloxone and Injecting equipment to individuals they have trained/educated using the CGL Supply Framework.

Our Harm Reduction Peer educators are recruited from the community and have a history of lived or living experience of using drugs, but in some cases, they are family members who have lost a sibling to an overdose.

This project started following the high death drug death rate in Scotland, and as Harm Reduction Peer Educators at Change Grow Live our main aim is to make a difference in our communities by educating others in harm reduction, overdose awareness, and reducing drug deaths.

With this role you’ll be working as part of Harm Reduction Peer Educator project, based in Edinburgh.

Responsibilities

We aim to train the peers up to be able to be competent within this project, so we can reach as many people as possible in the community to educate them in harm reduction and overdose awareness along with how to administer naloxone in the case of an overdose.

No two days are the same and we treat every person who we come into contact with in the communities as an individual, so being flexible, curious and a good listener are key.

We will support you in this volunteering role by ensuring that you receive regular supervision, and have someone on site who you can approach for day-to-day advice and guidance. In return for the time you give you will receive valuable training and gain experience and skills. You’ll be making a real difference too.

This is what one of our Volunteers had to say: “CGL gave me the opportunity to give back to my community and in the process I became confident, built my self esteem, and had a purpose in my life”.

Our values are to be compassionate, open and bold. If this sounds like you we’d love to hear from youso click apply.

Closing Date

28/7/2025

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

Dave Sheriff | [e-mail] | 07894964275Please 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.