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Job summary

Main area
Peer Mentoring and Recovery Advocacy for DWP / JCP
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
11 months (Fixed term contract until March 2025)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
301-IT-24-6207971
Employer
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - Inclusion Services
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cosham Job Centre
Town
Portsmouth
Salary
£22,816 - £24,336 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/05/2024 23:59

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DWP Peer Mentor

NHS AfC: Band 3

Job overview

We are excited to be able to recruit 2 Peer Mentors based within Portsmouth Job Centre and Cosham Job Centre, with a willingness to travel to Inclusion Hubs in Fareham, Gosport and Havant as and when required . 

You will be delivering 1-1 interventions to clients with substance misuse issues identified by the DWP or other agencies.
The role requires assessment of individuals and delivery of psychosocial interventions, a good understanding of the barriers to employment for substance dependent claimants, and also a good understanding of risk and risk management.

Mentors will also be required to have regular presence in JCP buildings across the areas, building links with work coaches, and other partnerships, as well as delivering basic substance misuse awareness. 

Whilst lived experience is preferred it is not essential for candidates to have lived experience. However, awareness of substances and associated harms would be of benefit. 

Main duties of the job

Peer Mentor (PMs) will provide intentional peer support (emotional and practical support) to service users with drug and/or alcohol needs who are accessing Job Centre Plus (or to access) as appropriate at the time of the intervention. Peer support is designed to further enable service 
users in progressing in their individual recovery journeys and access activities which are meaningful to them within this. 

The PM will take a lead role in embedding recovery values (mutuality, individual responsibility, agreed goals, individual narratives etc.) within the services in which they are based.

You will work alongside DWP and health care professionals to support service users, delivering 1-2-1 motivational sessions and co-facilitate groups embedding the ethos of peer support and recovery in clinical teams.

Working for our organisation

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex. We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health.
 
We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide. We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are.
 
Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description for more details, a summary is below:

  • Work in partnership with DWP / JCP and other ETE agencies
  •  Delivery training around substance misuse awareness to partnerships
  • Provide a minimum of 8 sessions of 1-1 support to adult mentees  who are referred by either the DWP or other relevant partnerships and have substance misuse dependency
  • Create SMART action plans for mentees that can be shared with DWP
  • Support clients who have barriers to education, training and employment caused by substance misuse
  • Manage a small caseload of minimum 30 mentees per year if working full time hours.
  • Identify barriers to education, training and employment created by substance misuse
  • Engage in regular training, supervision and feedback

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Commitment to obtain underpinning knowledge through work based learning and mandatory training.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Lived experience of difficulties with drugs and/or alcohol.
  • Willingness and ability to work across sites in the South of Hampshire and Portsmouth
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of substance related harms
  • Knowledge of psychosocial interventions

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer. Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Stephanie Smith
Job title
Area Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 124 0103
Additional information

For more information or an informal chat about this role, please email [email protected]

 

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