Peer Mentor

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**PEER MENTOR (MATERNITY COVER)**

**Contract**:37.5 hrs Normally Mon-Fri but maybe asked to work a day at the weekend to cover events. Permanent.

**Location**:Cardiff & The Vale

**Salary**:£23,409 per annum (Pro rata)

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.

**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. This Cyfle Cymru project aims to support young people not in education, employment or training, and those 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.

**PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR A PEER MENTOR**:

- BTEC Level 2 in Peer Mentoring or personal experience of substance misuse issues and / or mental health conditions.
- Personal experience of substance misuse issues and/or mental health conditions.
- Experience of working with individuals who have/had substance misuse issues or Mental Health issues.
- Experience of working in community-based services and with vulnerable client groups.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Be able to work to independently and as part of a team.
- A good listener and confident.
- Compassionate.
- Have good ICT skills and experience in the use of computers to input data.
- A full UK driver's licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes.
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**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract

**Salary**: Up to £23,409.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
- Sic