New Beginnings Brent is a full integrated community drugs and alcohol service for adults. The service provides psychosocial and pharmacological treatment, in partnership with CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust). The service also has an outreach team, including a dedicated sex worker project. About the role As a Volunteer Peer Advocacy and Engagement Practitioner, you will play a key role in fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and trauma-informed environment where people feel heard, valued, and empowered. You will: Use your lived experience of recovery, substance use, or the criminal justice system to support others on their own recovery journeys. You will assist the Peer Advocacy and Engagement Practitioner and the wider Via team in delivering recovery-focused activities, promoting service user involvement, and helping people access the support they need. Support the Peer Advocacy and Engagement Practitioner to provide peer-based support and advocacy. Use your lived experience to inspire hope and model recovery in a safe, appropriate, and professional way. Assist with engagement activities that encourage participation and feedback, helping to shape and improve services. Support the delivery of harm reduction advice, guidance, and information - for example, around overdose prevention, blood-borne virus awareness, and safer use practices (under staff supervision). Help connect service users with appropriate education, employment, wellbeing, and recovery opp