Application Deadline:18/08/2025
Hours:3-4 depending on location (see opportunity description document)
Salary:N/A
Contract Type:Volunteer
Please note, we encourage applicants to apply as soon as possible to book a place in our Peer Navigator programme.
Volunteering at OTR is hugely rewarding and we are looking torecruit a number of Peer Navigator volunteers to help staff our‘drop-in’ Hubs in Bristol and Yate from September 2025.
The Bristol ‘drop-in’ Hubs operate twice per week, and the Yate ‘drop-in’ Hub operates once per week, and involve meeting and talking with young people ages 11-25 in a safe, welcoming, and fun environment. Part of your role would include sharing information about OTR services as well as supporting young people who use the Hubs regularly as a social space.
All volunteers aresupported by our Community Development Workers and otherOTR staff and have the opportunity to lead in a certain area (e.g.cooking, creative drop-in).
We welcome applications from all young people aged 18-25. Noexperience required other than wanting to help others, developnew skills and be part of a community.
To find out more about the role please download the opportunity description. If you would like an informal chat about the role, please email Paul Russell - paul@otrbristol.org.uk
To apply for this role click the 'Apply now' button below. You'll have to opportunity to indicate whether you're interested in Bristol, Yate, or Both.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community and are committed to developing a team that reflects the diversity of the people we work with
Safeguarding:
OTR is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff, trustees, and volunteers to share this commitment.
As part of our Safer Recruitment practices, all roles involving contact with young people will be subject to robust pre-employment checks, including references, a full employment history, and an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Where applicable, overseas criminal record checks will also be required.
We are dedicated to creating a culture of vigilance, transparency, and accountability. Our safeguarding procedures are guided by the principle that the welfare of the child is paramount, and all staff are required to adhere to OTR’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.
OTR is a mental health social movement by and for young people. The charity is at an exciting stage of its 59-year history and is proud to be reaching more young people than ever before (around 20,000) across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and North Somerset with creative and diverse mental health and wellbeing info and support.
Our approach to mental health is grounded in a set of beliefs and values that underpin all of our work. We believe in celebrating diversity, empowering and mobilising young people to make change, and that catering to the unique strengths, interests and circumstances surrounding young people is key. Our approach centres on collaboration and partnership, building relationships between individuals, peers and communities.
Each day is as engaging and fulfilling as the last, and with a network of supportive, community minded people, we hope you’ll feel welcome here.
A Willingness to Work with Difference
At OTR, whatever your role or professional background, you will be expected to work in a way that is anti-oppressive and inclusive. A key focus for OTR is to develop an organisation that is inclusive for all but we do not claim to be experts in this. We are committed to continuous learning and improvement in these areas and invite you to join us on this journey.
OTR recognises the benefits to individual practice and organisational credibility of having a diverse community of staff and volunteers and to this end is continually working towards building and maintaining an environment which values and pursues diversity accordingly.
We recognise that tackling systemic inequality, prejudice, racism and oppressive practice requires each of us to actively engage, self-examine and make changes where necessary, in order to improve access and equitable experience for all in society and all of those who come through our doors at OTR.
#J-18808-Ljbffr