Peer Mentor – Intensive Community Rehabilitation Team
Job Description
Job title: Peer Mentor – Intensive Community Rehabilitation Team
Company: Birmingham Mind
Job description: 37.5 hours per week, full-time and 18.75 hours per week part-time (flexible-including weekends and evening work)
Are you ready to make a positive impact on mental health services in Birmingham?
Birmingham Mind is seeking an enthusiastic and compassionate individual to join our organisation as a Peer Mentor. As a Peer Mentor you will need to have living experience of mental health difficulties and have gained a level of insight into your mental health experience and be ready to talk about them openly. It is important that applicants have reached a period of stability and can manage their mental health and wellbeing, for them to be ready for this role. We are looking for someone who is ready to use their experience to support and inspire service users in their recovery journey. Peer Mentors will support service users on their emotional journey, and form therapeutic alliances to share ways of coping, understanding and nurturing hope and inspirations.
You will need to have excellent communication skills, with a good understanding of the individual recovery journey and the issues facing people suffering with mental health difficulties. We need a Peer Mentor who is able to share the values of our organisation and is passionate about our vision of “Better Mental Health for All” in Birmingham.
You would be joining our Intensive Community Rehabilitation service, a multi-disciplinary team ran jointly with the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust. You will be supporting service users primarily with bipolar, schizophrenia and psychosis, among other additional mental health diagnosis, who are living in their own accommodation and require a period of intense rehabilitation. Support will be provided in the service users own home, as well as community and hospital settings throughout the Birmingham area when required. The team is made up of both clinical and psychological professionals, and Birmingham Mind staff, and applicants must be ready to work co-operatively within a multi-disciplinary team. The service runs from 9am-8pm, and some evening and weekend work is required.
Joining Birmingham Mind means joining a diverse workforce, and an organisation that values living experience of mental distress. We are proud of our inclusive environment, and the support we provide to our staff as well as our service users.
All employees have access to affordable healthcare cover through paycare, a defined contribution pension scheme and access to free counselling and support through our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme. We also offer a comprehensive training programme, with an additional peer mentoring specialised induction.
We are able to offer one full-time contract and one part-time contract to successful candidates. For further information, please see the Peer Mentor Job Description for full details of attributes, values and experience required for the role.
You can watch one of our former peer mentors discuss their experiences of the role on our website. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to attend one of our pre-recruitment sessions to discuss the role further. They are taking place at our Bullring Wellbeing Hub on:
- Monday 11th March between 11am-12pm
- Thursday 14th March between 2pm-3pm
- Tuesday 19th March between 2pm-3pm
- Wednesday 20th March between 1pm-2pm
Any informal enquiries can be directed to Danielle Murinas on or 07592044180.
Applications close on 24th March 2024 and interviews will take place 5th April 2024.
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We were founded in 1962, and are a Registered Charity and Company Limited by Guarantee, affiliated to . If you would like to know more about our History, you can do so by downloading our booklet.
are individualised, person centred, and deliver valued outcomes, as we passionately believe that everyone has the right to live lives that are meaningful and which enable them to reach their full potential as individuals.
We work in active partnership with a range of local organisations to deliver services and challenge the stigma that surrounds mental distress.
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Location: Birmingham
