Peer Mentor

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**PEER MENTOR**

**Hours**:37.5hours a week (normally 9-5, but flexibility required)

**Salary**:£23,409 per annum

**Based at**:Flintshire

Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues. We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.

An opportunity has arisen for a passionate and self-motivated individual to join our

**Project overview**:
Cyfle Cymru is a Peer Mentoring project which helps people develop confidence to make positive life changes, and provides support to access training, education, volunteering and employment. Our peer mentors draw on their own lived experience to support people affected by substance misuse and/or mental health conditions. Cyfle Cymru will support people aged 16 to 24 (Not in education, employment or training) and those 25+ that are economically inactive or long term unemployed.

**Job Purpose**:

- Provide support and guidance to all participants that have been registered onto the project
- To develop ongoing action plans with participants which will be reviewed on a regular basis
- To provide one to one support and group activities to aid the development of a participant in their recovery
- Work alongside the team structure in delivering services and outcomes for the scheme
- To achieve project targets and outcomes set by Welsh Government
- To support the team leader and referral agents in raising awareness of the service
- To work in partnership with other practitioners to deliver effective interventions and support for people with Mental Health and/or substance misuse
- Provide support and supervision to volunteers

**Responsibilities**:

- To ensure all project outcomes are delivered on target.
- Work alongside other organisations to gain the best outcome for the participant.
- Source training and employment opportunities for a caseload of participants with the support of the Employer Liaison Officer.
- Utilise any other tools and techniques such as brief interventions and Adult Directions in assisting participants achieve their goals and objectives for the Peer Mentoring Scheme.
- Manage Volunteers in providing added value to the Out of Work Service.
- Provide ongoing support services to participants leaving the project.
- Record all activities in compliance with both organisational and Welsh Government regulations. This would include client registration forms, sessions records, timesheets and any other outcome monitoring required of the Scheme.

**Client Work**:

- To communicate skilfully and sensitively with highly complex and sensitive information, taking into account sensory and cultural barriers to communication.
- To have a good understanding of the difficulties that our client group face, be able to implement appropriate measures of support.
- To provide additional workshops to aid recovery of Substance misuse and/or Mental health.
- To provide one to one support to clients
- To provide group activities to promote independent living skills and aid the recovery of the participants
- To be a good Role Model to the client group
- To be able to demonstrate enthusiasm for development and progressions of the client group by providing details action plans and support to achieve the goals set out.
- To refer clients to other services within the partnership, and other external agencies as appropriate.
- The ability to prioritise and organise own workload
- To be accountable for own decisions and actions in consultation with supervision.
- To undertake clinical administrative tasks and reports relating to mentoring project when necessary.

**Policy and service development**:

- To adhere to agreed Health and Safety and Security procedures/policies.
- To adhered to Safeguarding policies and to ensure this is recorded effectively.
- To identify and contribute towards any aspects of the peer mentoring service where improvement can be made and to advise service and managers accordingly.
- To assist with the delivery of peer mentoring training if required.

**Professional**:

- To participate in the continuous learning within the Out of Work Service academy and Adferiad appraisal process.
- To operate within and observe partnership policies and procedures as amended and updated.
- To make regular use of supervision.
- To be responsible for working within own level of competence.
- To undertake internal and external training as appropriate, and as required as part of Continuous Professional Development.
- To develop and maintain professional working relationships with external agencies.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Essential**

**Qualifications**:

- BTEC Level 2 in Peer Mentoring or personal expe