Peer Mentor (Substance Misuse Support) (4600)
Peer Mentor (Substance Misuse Support)
The Growth Company's (GC) Employment team are now hiring for a Peer Mentor. As a Peer Mentor you will join our team to provide personalized advice, guidance, and training interventions for individuals with substance misuse issues. You'll facilitate referrals and maintain liaison with Jobcentre Plus and other relevant agencies, supporting individuals in developing essential skills such as motivation, a positive outlook, and self-esteem.
Your role will be crucial in assisting their transition into or out of formal treatment, education, training, and, where appropriate, employment.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Identify individual needs, including learning needs.
- Deliver interventions for each client; face-to-face and digital.
- Nurture onward and frequent interaction with customers.
- Enable customers to access and use information.
- Record discussions and training sessions and coordinate further activity with customers.
- Provide support for customers in implementing future courses of action.
- Help prepare and develop resources to support progression and learning.
- Facilitate learning in groups that improves employability and progression.
About You:
- Insight and understanding of substance misuse, including an element of ‘lived experience’.
- Desire to contribute to the improvement of services supporting people with drug or alcohol issues.
- Warm, approachable, and empathetic style with the ability to build relationships with customers.
- Ability to understand, demonstrate, and apply Growth Company values.
- Mindful of professional boundaries.
Skills Required:
- Motivated and keen with good communication skills.
- Ability to work well with others - personable and professional.
- Strong integrity and emotional resilience.
- Knowledge of issues affecting people in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.
- Good knowledge of welfare to work and Jobcentre Plus.
- Familiarity with local treatment and health providers, support agencies, and community resources.
- Understanding that some customers may also be service users within the National Probation Services or have experienced HM Prison environments.
- Experience in the drug/alcohol issues treatment and support service.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.