Contact us
BSDAS, The Blackberry Centre, Blackberry
Hill Hospital
Manor Road, Fishponds
Bristol, BS16 2EW
Blackberry Centre: 0117 3784500
Stokes Croft: 0117 9232077
Colston Fort: 0117 9192345
Peer Mentor
Volunteering
www.awp.nhs.uk
You’ll need to fill out an application form, have a CRB check, and an interview. Having convictions may not prevent you from becoming a peer mentor volunteer; in fact, your experience may be helpful to others.
We ask that our peer mentor volunteers consider themselves to be currently stable and in recovery from substance misuse.
PALS
To make a comment, raise a concern or make a complaint, please contact the
Trust’s Patient Advice and Liaison Service
(PALS)
Tel: 01249 468261
Freephone: 0800 073 1778
Email: awp.pals@nhs.net
Other formats and languages
If you need this information in other formats
(such as large print, audio, Braille) or in another language, please call the PALS number. Lead: Advanced Substance Misuse Practitioner
Leaflet Code: AWP2011-208v2
Approval Date: September 2011
Review Date: September 2014
Is Peer Mentor Volunteering with Bristol Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service for you?
Use your experience to help others find their way to recovery from drug and alcohol misuse.
Do you have:
One day a week to volunteer with BSDAS?
What does a peer mentor volunteer do? Meet and greet service users at any site
Good communication skills?
A willingness and enthusiasm to mentor peers?
Experience as a BSDAS service user within the last five years?
Flexibility?
BSDAS recognise the value of talking to someone who is a bit further ahead on their journey of recovery. Our peer mentor volunteers know how it feels to live needing drink or drugs; to be on a script; to detox; go to rehab or a dry house; and how to be in recovery.
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