METRO are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to oversee our Men’s Health peer mentoring programme. Together with our peer mentors, you will be responsible for co-producing a programme of workshops, groups and social activities across our local boroughs, working in partnership with a wide range of external organisations. You will also lead on the recruitment, training and management of a team of fantastic volunteer peer mentors who utilise their own lived experience to support others in the local community.
To meet the needs of the people we support you will need to be a proactive self-starter who is able to work some evenings, weekends and work from a number of our different offices. This position is only open to applicants who identify as male,
Equality Act 2010 Schedule 9 Part 1) as the role will involve working one-to-one with men and running peer led support groups around men’s health.
Role
This role will predominantly focus on health inequalities regarding sexual health, mental health and drug and alcohol misuse. The worker will predominantly work with men, but also LGBTQ+ communities, Black and Asian heritage communities, migrant communities, people living with HIV and sex workers.
This role will involve training peer mentors, as well as coordinating the mentoring and group work programme.
Our peer mentoring programme covers a wide range of areas including:
· Improving mental health
· STI and HIV prevention - testing and diagnosis support
· Living with HIV
· Healthy relationships
· Sexuality and gender
· Fertility, reproductive health and parenting
· Sex and pleasure
· Sex work
Application deadline:
No later than 9:00am on Monday 29th July 2024.