Peer Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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 Peer Practitioner role involves providing 1:1 and group peer support to women and birthing people experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy and after birth. You will draw on your own lived experience of mental health challenges and accessing services to support others, working within a perinatal service. The role includes promoting service user voices, recovery values, and trauma-informed approaches within the team. You will receive training and ongoing supervision.
Essential criteria
- Foundation Degree or equivalent OR equivalent experience of providing peer support in a community or inpatient setting
- Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Completed / a willingness to undertake Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale
Desirable criteria
- Completed peer support training
- Personal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised
- Personal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient) mental health services
- Experience of delivering peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
- Experience of actively engaging in a supervision or co-supervision system
- Passionate about the values of peer support and understands what the role adds to a team
- Understands importance of maintaining integrity to peer support role
- Understanding of trauma informed approaches and trauma informed peer support, and demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to practice
- Understanding of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds
- Experience of facilitating peer support groups
- Able to share elements of own life experiences, and engage compassionately with experiences of others, in a way appropriate to the role and peer relationship
- Ability to communicate information (verbal and written) effectively in a manner appropriate to the individual and situation
- Good peer relationship skills and ability to verbally describe these skills
- Foundation Degree or equivalent OR equivalent experience of providing peer support in a community or inpatient setting
- Numeracy, Literacy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Completed / a willingness to undertake Trust Trauma Informed Peer Support Training course (passing within agreed timescale
- Completed peer support training
- Personal experience of mental health challenges or a learning disability that is relevant to the specific role advertised
- Personal experience of accessing secondary (or inpatient) mental health services
- Experience of delivering peer support in a paid or voluntary role, or in a user led environment
- Experience of actively engaging in a supervision or co-supervision system
- Passionate about the values of peer support and understands what the role adds to a team
- Understands importance of maintaining integrity to peer support role
- Understanding of trauma informed approaches and trauma informed peer support, and demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to practice
- Understanding of the needs of individuals from diverse social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds
- Experience of facilitating peer support groups
- Able to share elements of own life experiences, and engage compassionately with experiences of others, in a way appropriate to the role and peer relationship
- Ability to communicate information (verbal and written) effectively in a manner appropriate to the individual and situation
- Good peer relationship skills and ability to verbally describe these skills
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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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Peer Practitioner
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust are pleased to announce an exciting job opportunity. The North Yorkshire & York Perinatal serviceare looking for a Peer Practitioner to join their team. The successful candidate will work across York, Selby, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale.
The perinatal service provides community-based support to women and birthing people who are experiencing mental health difficulties:
during pregnancy
in the first year after they have had their baby
Peer support can be described as when people with shared experiences connect to build relationships that are:
safe
trusting
non-judgmental
Peer Practitioners are:
people who have experience of mental health challenges
people who have experience of accessing services for mental health care
employed, trained and supported to work to the TEWV Peer Support Values and use their experiences to support others.
You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.
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