Peer Mentor

7 months ago


Cardiff, United Kingdom Kaleidoscope Project Full time

**Job Purpose**
- To promote and recruit suitable participants to the Peer Mentoring Service
- To support those suitable participants into education, training, volunteering or work.
- To work alongside a team of Peer Mentors to achieve targets for the wider region
- To support the Lead Peer Mentor in efforts to achieve targets

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**
- Source potential participants through referral routes.
- Provide support and guidance to all participants being referred onto the project.
- Source training and employment opportunities for a caseload of participants.
- 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 a caseload Volunteers to help achieve project targets.
- Deliver group activities.
- Provide ongoing support services to participants leaving the project.
- Record all activities in compliance with both organisational and European Social Fund regulations. This would include client registration forms, timesheets and any other outcome monitoring required of the Scheme.
- To work alongside mental health peer mentors and other partners within the service.
- Provide group and training activities to participants in developing employability

skills and community wellbeing.

**Client Work**
- To communicate skilfully and sensitively highly complex and sensitive information, taking into account sensory and cultural barriers to communication.
- To refer clients to other services within the partnership, and other external agencies as appropriate.
- To undertake and manage own participant and volunteer caseload.
- To be accountable for own decision 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 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.

**Professional**
- To participate in the continuous learning, development and 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.

The post holder will have responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of vulnerable adults/children (as appropriate) where the employee has responsibility or contact with the vulnerable person.

Alongside this you will need to provide evidence of your COVID-19 vaccination status; we strongly advise that both vaccinations, plus any booster vaccinations are received (unless you have reasonable grounds, e.g. you are medically exempt)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £24,335.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Private medical insurance

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Work Location: In person


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