Lived Experience Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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 role is for a Lived Experience Support Worker, also known as a Peer Support Worker, embedded within the Primary Mental Health Requirement Treatment Team. You will provide additional lived experience support to service users navigating the criminal justice system, helping them overcome challenges in their recovery journey. This involves working one-to-one, jointly with an AP, or in drop-in clinics, offering tailored support and developing activities. Applicants must have personal experience with mental health treatment and preferably with the criminal justice system.
Key responsibilities
- Support individuals and groups using a peer-oriented approach.
- Establish therapeutic relationships with individuals navigating the criminal justice system.
- Be a positive role model for people overcoming vulnerabilities.
- Use parts of your recovery story to inspire hope in others where appropriate.
- Manage a caseload of service users and work with treating APs to develop treatment plans.
- Help establish and run drop-in clinics at Probation sites.
Essential criteria
- A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical or life skills
- Personal experience of mental health treatment and/or involvement with the criminal justice system
- Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills
- Experience of working with people with mental health needs or other vulnerabilities in a paid or voluntary capacity
- Experience working as part of a team
- Experience of being supervised
- Recent lived experience of mental health issues or another relevant vulnerability, and of being in the criminal justice system
- Managing personal recovery
- Knowledge of Peer Support, Recovery, and Wellbeing and an ability to apply this throughout your work
Desirable criteria
- Experience of a mental health treatment requirement order (MHTR)
- Experience running groups/activities
- Experience of training others in technical/leisure/creative skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £29,812 – £32,715 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Lived Experience Support Worker
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
This post is for a Lived Experience Support Worker (also referred to as a Peer Support Worker or an Expert by Experience Support Worker) who will be embedded with the Primary Mental Health Requirement Treatment Team within the wider Liaison and Diversion Service.
Our team provides psychoeducation based interventions over twelve weeks for service users who have had a Community Order for primary care mental health treatment. We do this work one-to-one in person, by video, or by telephone and we offer a skills-based group virtually to all service users.Your role will be to work with us to provide additional lived experience support to service users going through the criminal justice system to help them to overcome challenges in their journey to recovery and wellbeing. You will do this holistically, being flexible in the way you work in order to provide tailored support to our service users.You may provide support by meeting service users for a coffee, joining them on their journey into their sessions, providing additional out of session support for their interventions, or developing different activities that suit their needs and your skills. You will work independently with service users, jointly with an AP, or as part of a drop-i
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