Mental Health Peer Facilitator

Portsmouth City Council; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Portsmouth City Council is seeking a Mental Health Peer Hub Facilitator to support a new initiative aimed at enhancing community mental health services. This role will entail coordinating activities and fostering partnerships to empower individuals with mental health challenges, promoting their independence and inclusion in the community.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of mental health challenges and commitment to community inclusion.
• Experience in facilitating initiatives within a trauma-informed framework.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating and coordinating community-based activities.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to enhance mental health support services.
• Planning and coordinating daily activities and events.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Mental Health Peer Hub Facilitator - fixed term/secondment opportunity for 1 year due to funding, with possibility of extension.

Salary: Band: 8, £35,235 - £37,937 p.a.

37 hours per week, full-time. Flexible working hours will be required, including some evenings and weekends.

What is the role?

This is a new role playing an integral part of an exciting new project and will be based at Southsea Community Cinema and Art Centre.

As part of a strategic initiative to enhance mental health peer support services in Portsmouth, this role focuses on facilitating and coordinating community-based activities. The aims of the project are to develop strong partnership working with VCSE organisations to build effective peer support across Portsmouth, strengthening mental health activities and support aimed at promoting independence and empowerment.

This role enables individuals to take part in activities and support which empowers and promotes independence, having a voice in how the resource time and space is designed and used. You will use your communication and organisational skills to foster a trauma-informed and strengths-based approach that meet the projects objectives. The Peer Hub Facilitator will play a vital role in ensuring the success and sustainability of the project, aligning it with the local authorities and community needs.

Other key responsibilities will include planning and coordinating daily activities and events, collaborating and networking with other internal and external stakeholders and participation and community engagement.

Who is the person

You will have an understanding, knowledge and empathy of the challenges faced by individuals with mental heat needs and a commitment to supporting their inclusion in the community. A self-motivated individual, you will have strong organisational skills an attention to detail whilst being able to manage multiple priorities. You will be open to new ideas and have excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. With experience of facilitating co-produced initiatives and working within a trauma-informed framework you will have line management experience. You will need to be physically fit with the ability to climb stairs as you will be working in a period building with no lifts.

Please view the job profile for full details of the role and what you need to demonstrate in your application.

About Portsmouth City Council

What we can offer you:

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board safer recruitment procedures.

Application process:

If you would like further information around the post then please contact Dan Warren-Holland, Commissioning Officer, [e-mail]

If applying as a secondment you will need permission from your current line manager releasing you for this secondment. Please state you have this on your application form.

How to apply: Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. This is important or you are likely not to be shortlisted. Please read alongside the 'How to apply' on the careers page.

Closing date: 11 June 2025

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