Peer Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 05/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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 involves providing emotional support and practical assistance to young people accessing Children and Young People (CYP) Services. The Peer Support Worker will use their lived experience of mental health difficulties in adolescence to build positive relationships, promote hope, and help young people achieve their recovery goals. Duties include sharing coping techniques, supporting access to community activities, and contributing to the development of CYP services.
Key responsibilities
- Model principles of hope, recovery and self-belief in all aspects of their work with young people and families.
- Share coping, self-help and self-management techniques with children, young people and their carers.
- Support young people to access the community or other meaningful activity to promote their independence and emotional and social development.
- Support young people who may be struggling with transitions out of, or across, services.
- Contribute to the development of children and young person's involvement and participation in our CYP services.
Essential criteria
- Satisfactory level of secondary education to GCSE English A-C grade or 9-4 grade or equivalent (may be working toward this)
- Be able to demonstrate a good standard of English
- Willingness to undertake further training to support development of peer support role
- Lived experience of mental health issues
- Lived experience of accessing CAMHS and/or engaging in treatment/support from a mental health service when an adolescent
- Experience of being in a role supporting or mentoring others
- Experience of working in a team or group environment
- Experience of using a range of self-management or recovery tools and techniques
- Good written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Able to confidently use a computer
- Able to develop positive relationships with children and young people and assist them in developing and meeting recovery goals
- Able to demonstrate a non-judgemental, respectful attitude toward others
- Ability to understand and relate to current issues that impact on children and young people's mental health, including the impact of stigma and discrimination
- Understanding of service user involvement and participation and why it is important
- An ability to recognise and manage own stress. Ability to demonstrate and model self-care skills
- Good organisational skills, including time management
- Willingness to reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Be able to ask for help
- Ability to work creatively and use initiative
- Ability to work well within a team
Desirable criteria
- Level of education to NVQ 3/AS level or equivalent
- Mental Health or Health and Social Care related qualification
- Recovery college course qualification
- Experience working with children and young people
- Experience of working in a team
- Experience of working across different organisational boundaries
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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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Peer Support Worker
The closing date is 30 August 2026
Job summary
Do you have lived experience of mental health difficulties in adolescence? Do you want to use your lived experience of recovery to help others?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate individual with this lived experience to join our award-winning Children and Young People (CYP) Peer Support Team, covering the north of the county (Lincoln, Louth, Sleaford, Gainsborough) on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
Peer Support Workers (PSWs) work with children and young people (CYP), building mutual, strength-based relationships to promote hope and support CYP to meet their recovery goals. We are therefore looking for individuals who can understand and relate to the experiences of young people using mental health services, including the current issues and challenges that impact on young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing.
As the CYP Peer Support Team works across a number of our CYP mental health teams (Healthy Minds Lincolnshire, CAMHS, Mental Health Support Teams, CYP Complex Needs Service), it is important to have excellent communication skills and work creatively to help young people and families have a positive experience of our services.
Please note, applicants will need to be able to travel independently across the county without rel
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