Senior Peer Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is a part-time Senior Peer Support Worker role within the Southern Gambling Service, requiring 22.5 hours per week. The successful candidate will have lived experience of gambling difficulties and recovery, using this to provide hope and support to others. The role involves coordinating, supervising, and supporting the Peer Support Team, ensuring recovery-focused peer support is delivered. While based in Southampton, the role will predominantly involve remote working.
Essential criteria
- GCSEs or equivalent qualifications, or agreed equivalent experience
- Knowledge of working with people
- Excellent understanding of Peer Support
- Commitment to undertaking continual personal development
- GCSEs or equivalent qualifications, or agreed equivalent experience
- Knowledge of working with people
- Excellent understanding of Peer Support
- Commitment to undertaking continual personal development
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Peer Support Worker
The closing date is 13 September 2026
Job summary
Due to service expansion, an exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an additional Senior Peer Support Worker within the Southern Gambling Service (SGS). The role is part-time at 22.5 hours. We are seeking an individual who has lived experience of gambling difficulties and recovery and is passionate about reducing stigma and shame and increasing access to gambling treatment. We recognise the value peer support brings to our service as part of integrated treatment pathways. We are a regional NHS gambling service based at College Keep in Southampton, but the role will involve predominantly remote working from home. The team meet monthly, in person, at College Keep and some mandatory training will require traveling to Trust sites in Hampshire.
The Senior Peer Support Worker will use their own personal experiences of managing mental health and recovery, to provide hope, empathy and a different practical perspective through support, dialogue and acting as a role model.
The postholder will provide day-to-day coordination, supervision and support to the Southern Gambling Service Peer Support Team, ensuring consistent, recovery-focused peer support is delivered across all localities.
Main duties of the job
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