This position is full-time (based on 35 hours per week) and is fixed-term for 5 years.
SDF has been funded by the Scottish Government to deliver a new project on ensuring the opinions and experience of people living with drug problems, ‘the voice of living experience’ in Scotland informs and influences policy and the development of services across Scotland.
The focus of the Development Officer’s work is to recruit, train, support and sustain local and regional networks of people with a current living experience of problem drug use / being in treatment. Regional representatives will form a national group that will inform the drug treatment and care sector, the government and the wider public about the experience of drug use, accessing and being in treatment, and other support services.
About the Post Holder:
We encourage applications from people with their own direct lived experience of problem drug use who can use their experience and their own peer networks in developing these roles. As the role requires the post holder to engage with a diverse range of people with living experience, it is essential that applicants are knowledgeable of problem use of various substances and are knowledgeable and supportive of recovery including having a sound understanding of harm reduction, all available treatment and all forms of mutual aid.
