Peer Support Worker
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- 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.
Role summary
This part-time Peer Support Worker role is within the Hastings Early Intervention in Psychosis Team, supporting individuals aged 14-65 experiencing their first episode of psychosis. The successful candidate will use their lived experience of psychosis to provide recovery-focused interventions, empowering service users to regain control and independence. Working collaboratively, the role involves building on strengths, linking to community services, and co-facilitating groups. The team is based at Bexhill Health Centre and offers supervision and development opportunities.
Essential criteria
- A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical/life skills
- Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
- Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills
- A recognised qualification in an area related to the workplace or equivalent technical/life skills
- Evidence of a commitment to lifelong learning
- Health care or relevant NVQ Level 3 or equivalent skills
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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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Peer Support Worker
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Hastings Early Intervention in Psychosis Team This a part/time role - 3 days per week.
Early Interventions In Psychosis - (Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) is a community based service for people aged 14-65 who are experiencing their first episode of psychosis. As part of our ambition to deliver outstanding care we are looking to recruit a Peer Support Worker.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an expert by experience that has lived experience of psychosis, to support the delivery of recovery focused interventions in our Early Intervention Team. As an integral and highly valued member of our multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Worker will provide formalised peer support and practical assistance to service users, empowering them to regain control over their lives and their own unique recovery process.Working collaboratively alongside service users, the Peer Support Worker builds on a person's ability, strengths and their links to social and community services. In the role you will work in partnership with multiple agencies in the community. Peer Support Workers engage with mental health service users to show empathy, share experience, inspire hope and promote recovery with the aim of assist
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