Peer Mentor (Mental Health)

We are the leading provider of mental health services in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Our Vision is “Better Mental Health for All” and our values of Respect, Partnerships, Recovery, Wellbeing and Prevention are at the heart of what we deliver. Birmingham Mind has a well-earned reputation for excelling in quality delivery and plays a key role in supporting and influencing the wider mental health system across the city.

With almost 60 years’ experience of supporting people with mental health difficulties within our local communities, we continue to challenge the stigma that surrounds mental distress. Birmingham Minds’ core service activities include accommodation-based services such as our 24/7regulated services, community-based recovery hubs, and floating support.

We are recognised as a Disability confident employer and a mindful employer, in addition to achieving gold standard success in Investors in People.

Birmingham Mind Peer Mentoring Programme.

We are looking to attract and recruit several peer mentoring roles to join our Vulnerable Adults Service and our Intensive Community Rehabilitation Service. We can offer both part-time and full-time positions to suitable individuals.

Peer mentors will work in services which support people in the community, both in their own home and supported accommodation which at times offer an alternative to inpatient rehabilitation. We aim to increase independence and social functioning with an overall aim to support the individual’s recovery

Peer mentors will work with a team of support workers/community recovery navigators and use their lived experience of mental health whilst utilising the core principles of peer support, to support service users in their engagement of the service and their recovery.

Our peer mentors will work alongside other Birmingham Mind services, other mental health support services and relevant statutory and third sector providers. They will be key to helping service users to understand their recovery journey through relationship building and person-centred care.

We are looking for individuals with lived experience of mental health difficulties, who can build on and use this experience to support others to achieve recovery and maintain independence.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills, with a clear understanding of mental health difficulties and a knowledge of some of the services which can support people. A positive attitude to people experiences mental distress will be essential.

Successful applicants will receive specialised peer mentor training alongside Birmingham Minds in-service training programme.

All peer mentors will receive structured practical and wellbeing support and will be provided with personal developmental opportunities through Birmingham Mind’s Peer Mentoring Programme.

Please see the Peer Mentor Job Description for full details of key attributes, values and experience required for these roles.

Benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme, Paycare which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme which includes free counselling and a comprehensive training programme.

Our people are key to the success of the organisation and we are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. We welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.

The closing date: Sunday 12th February 2023

Interviews will be held on: Friday 24th February 2023