Peer Mentor

Salary: £24,242.40

Location: Blackwood

Contract Type: Fixed Term 31-Aug-2026

Hours: Full Time

The Opportunity

The Employment Service offers confidential peer support to improve the employability of individuals through asset-based mentoring, with support to identify individual strengths, goals and develop connections within their local communities.

Through peer mentoring people experiencing mental health struggles and/or substance use will develop trusting relationships to share their stories and inspire people to achieve their goals.

The service works with people to develop their confidence, identify goals and provide a pathway for people seeking employment, training or volunteering opportunities, as well as creating meaningful community connections.

As a peer mentor, you will work to improve the employability of people who are affected by mental health and Substance issues, to help them gain and obtain sustainably work based opportunities.

We work with people experiencing challenges with their mental health, and with communities who want to create a greater sense of wellbeing in the places that they live. Through our projects, we work with thousands of people each year.

We believe that long-lasting wellbeing comes about by understanding how lives can be shaped by traumatic experiences, identifying people’s strengths and focussing on healing. We know we can’t ‘fix’ people, but we can walk alongside people and help where we can on their journey.

We try hard to make Platfform a great place to work, we live our values and mission in everything that we do.

The people

Platfform is the charity for mental health and social change. We’re a supportive team where you can be your whole selves, and know that you’re playing a genuine part in building a happier future for people across the UK.