The CAVDAS Alliance brings together the skills, experience and expertise of three Welsh substance use organisations – Barod, Kaleidoscope and Recovery Cymru – and the Cardiff and Vale Area Planning Board.

CAVDAS was formed to deliver innovative services based on the needs of the people in Cardiff and Vale.

This unique arrangement for Welsh services allows space for the voices of people using services to be heard and for their needs to be met in the ways that work for them.

That way, we can continue to further develop services as required.

The value of shared experience is essential to CAVDAS and volunteering is central to this. This role will support people with lived experience of substance use and related issues, recovery supporters as well as their families to undertake meaningful volunteering opportunities, build new skills and support others.

The role will involve advertising, recruitment, selection, induction, training and volunteering-based support for people to undertake across CAVDAS.

A large part of this is inspiring and supporting people to learn new skills, gain confidence and utilise these to demonstrate reliability, organisation and commitment, thus preparing them for other opportunities and the workplace.

A staged, individualised approach is needed to support people to achieve more than they thought they could whilst ensuring maintaining standards and safeguarding volunteers and those they support.

This role will also involve offering core training to all volunteers in CAVDAS and liaising with team leads to identify volunteering roles and vacancies.