Peer Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a compassionate and motivated Peer Support Worker to join a Community Mental Health Team. You will use your personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery to support others on their own journey. The role involves building trusting relationships, providing emotional and practical support, and encouraging recovery and independence. You will also help people access community resources and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Essential criteria
- Level 4 Peer Support accredited training or commitment to work towards
Desirable criteria
- Training for lived experience practitioners
- Evidence of further related training.
- Health related qualification.
- Recovery college qualification.
- Personal lived experience of mental health distress.
- Personal experience of accessing primary or secondary mental health service.
- Basic understanding of Peer Support
- Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way.
- Good motivational techniques and abilities.
- Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.
- Understanding of how lived experience of mental health problems can be used to support others
- Understanding of recovery
- focussed principles and how they can influence support for service users.
- Understanding of the issues and concerns that people using services may have in relation to their care.
- Able to maintain the profile of the peer support service within a multidisciplinary/ multi-agency setting.
- Demonstrates the ability to role model, empower and enable others,
- Good organisational skills and time management.
- Ability to receive highly complex and sensitive information and maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to use information and communication technology (computer literacy)
- Level 4 Peer Support accredited training or commitment to work towards
- Training for lived experience practitioners
- Evidence of further related training.
- Health related qualification.
- Recovery college qualification.
- Personal lived experience of mental health distress.
- Personal experience of accessing primary or secondary mental health service.
- Basic understanding of Peer Support
- Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way.
- Good motivational techniques and abilities.
- Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.
- Understanding of how lived experience of mental health problems can be used to support others
- Understanding of recovery
- focussed principles and how they can influence support for service users.
- Understanding of the issues and concerns that people using services may have in relation to their care.
- Able to maintain the profile of the peer support service within a multidisciplinary/ multi-agency setting.
- Demonstrates the ability to role model, empower and enable others,
- Good organisational skills and time management.
- Ability to receive highly complex and sensitive information and maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to use information and communication technology (computer literacy)
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.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Peer Support Worker
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
Use your lived experience to make a difference.
We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Peer Support Worker to join our Community Mental Health Team.
This unique role uses your personal experience of mental health challenges and recovery to support others on their own journey. By sharing your experiences appropriately, you will help people build hope, confidence, and resilience while working towards the goals that matter to them.
As a Peer Support Worker, you will:
- Build positive and trusting relationships with service users.
- Provide emotional and practical support through shared lived experience.
- Encourage recovery, independence, and wellbeing.
- Help people access community resources, groups, and activities.
- Work alongside clinicians and other professionals as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.
You will:
- Have lived experience of mental health difficulties and recovery.
- Be able to use your experiences safely and positively to support others.
- Have excellent communication and listening skills.
- Be passionate about recovery-focused and person-centred care.
- Enjoy working with people and helping them achieve their goals.
If you are passionate about supporting others and want to use your experience to ins
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