Peer Mentor

About theWest Gwent - Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT): The team provides a specialist service, offering comprehensive assessment, treatment and care of individuals living with a wide variety of mental health illnesses. The team offer a safe alternative to hospital by either totally preventing an admission or reducing the length of your stay. The team ensures individuals experiencing mental health difficulties receive a service that is the least restrictive and wherever possible in their home environment to minimise disruption to their lives.

As a Peer Mentor, you will be an 'expert by experience', working within a multi-disciplinary team using a person-centred, strengths-based, recovery & wellness approach whilst working directly with adult service users.

To be a Peer Mentor in this service, there is a requirement that you have a lived experience of mental health illness and would have had experience and input from a Mental Health Service.The applicant must be empathetic and be able to show an understanding of the issues faced by individuals presenting in crisis to deliver peer mentoring support to these individuals and their Family/Carers.

The post holder is encouraged to raise awareness of a strengths-based approach and associated language with staff by modelling positive strengths based, non-discriminatory, non-jargon, and non-medicalised language in all areas of work.

Due to being a community service, the ability to travel between sites is essential to this post.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.