Peer Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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.
“Due to current Home Office Guidelines, we are unable to sponsor this job role.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
The Peer Support Worker will provide formal and professional peer support and practical assistance to service users within the Basildon Mental Health Unit. Using their own lived experience of recovery, they will help service users regain control over their lives and navigate their recovery journey. This role involves building positive relationships, identifying recovery goals, and advocating for service users' needs during their inpatient stay. The aim is to promote recovery and wellbeing by minimising the impact of mental ill health.
Essential criteria
- The ability to follow procedure and develop a culture of safe practice
Desirable criteria
- Peer Support certification
- Experience of working alongside mental health professionals.
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983
- Skills/ Experience
- Personal lived experience of managing or living with complex mental health issues
- Experience of working with volunteers, 3rd sector organisations and/or community and social enterprise organisations
- Ability to provide calm, consistent support to those experiencing a mental health crisis
- Education/ Qualifications
- The ability to follow procedure and develop a culture of safe practice
- Peer Support certification
- Experience of working alongside mental health professionals.
- Knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983
- Skills/ Experience
- Personal lived experience of managing or living with complex mental health issues
- Experience of working with volunteers, 3rd sector organisations and/or community and social enterprise organisations
- Ability to provide calm, consistent support to those experiencing a mental health crisis
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Peer Support Worker
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Please note you must have right to work in the UK to apply for this position.
Due to current Home Office Guidelines, we are unable to sponsor this job role.
As an integral and highly valued member of the Inpatient Care Team working within Basildon Mental Health Unit, the Peer Support Worker will provide formal and professional peer support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their unique recovery journey in a progressive way during their time on the ward.
Working in line with the national peer support competency framework, and the key principles of peer support as outlined by ImROC, The PSW will effectively use their own lived experience of recovery to support a person in their own recovery journey, helping the people they are supporting to navigate the inpatient pathway. By building positive relationship with service users and patients based on mutuality, reciprocity, and inclusivity, they will support people to identify their recovery goals and strengths working towards discharge. The PSW will advocate for a persons needs and support that person to self-advocate during their inpatient stay.
Main duties of the job
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