Peer Mentor/ Peer Support Worker

Job summary

Due to a career break for one of our permanent staff, we have an opportunity fora secondment to join our team for 15 hours per week for a maximum of six months until the end of March 2026.

The Part One Psychology Service (POPS)team support the work of psychologists in CMHTs by providing high quality group-based interventions such as DBT or CBTgroups, as well as 1:1 psychological therapy. We are based in St Cadoc's but work across the whole of Gwent.

Our Peer Mentors have been part of the team since we started in September 2021 and are fully embedded in our service structure. Our service relies on their lived expertise and experienceto ensure that patients have the best possible interventions. We think we are the only Psychological Therapies team in the UK to have peers working in our team. Our peers support our groupsby providing their lived experience expertise to help people understand and get the best out of their therapy. They also have a small individual caseloadof people they are supporting at various points of their recovery journey.

You would be joining our friendly teamwhich includes dedicated administrative support, our peer mentors, two assistant psychologists, psychological therapists, CAAPs and practitioner psychologists

This post is fixed term/secondment for 6 months to meet the needs of the service.

If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.

Main duties of the job

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board are committed to delivering quality services based on the needs of the people who use them. As a Peer Mentor, you will be an expert by experience, working within a multi-disciplinary team and using a person-centred, strengths based recovery approach whilst working directly with people participating in our psychological therapy groups, and also individual psychological therapy.

In order to be eligible for this role it is a requirement that you have had experience of formal psychological therapies such as CBT, DBT or EMDR.

The role will also include some administrative duties, including recording on electronic patient records. You may be working with groups, individuals and agencies external to the NHS.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.