Peer Coordinator

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Gosport; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a compassionate Peer Coordinator for its Community Mental Health Teams. You will lead a team of Peer Support Workers, using your lived experience to drive recovery, empowerment and person‑centred care.

The role focuses on supervision, development, and ensuring lived experience remains central to how services are delivered. You will support recruitment, induction, and wellbeing, while advocating for continuous improvement of peer support

Qualifications

• Have personal lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery.
• Experience in mentoring, supervising, or leading others.
• Commitment to recovery‑focused, person‑centred care.

Responsibilities

• Provide day‑to‑day leadership, support, and supervision to Peer Support Workers.
• Support recruitment, induction, development and wellbeing of Peer Support Workers.
• Promote recovery, empowerment and person‑centred approaches to care.
• Help develop peer support services and ensure lived experience informs service development.
• Coordinate and support the Peer Support Team across localities.

Skills

Lived experience

Leadership

Mentoring & supervision

Job description

Use your lived experience to lead, inspire, and make a difference.

We are looking for a compassionate, motivated, and recovery-focused Peer Coordinator to join our Community Mental Health Teams.

This role will use your personal experience of mental health challenges and recovery to lead and support a team of Peer Support Workers, ensuring that lived experience remains at the heart of the care we provide.

As a Peer Coordinator, you will:

• Provide day-to-day leadership, support, and supervision to Peer Support Workers.
• Support the recruitment, induction, development, and wellbeing of Peer Support Workers.
• Promote recovery, empowerment, and person-centred approaches to care.
• Help develop and improve peer support services, ensuring the voice of people with lived experience is heard and valued., The Peer Support Coordinator will use their own personal experiences of managing mental health and recovery, to provide hope, empathy and a different practical perspective through support, dialogue and acting as a role model.
• The postholder will provide day-to-day coordination, supervision and support to the CMHT Peer Support Team, ensuring consistent, recovery-focused peer support is delivered across all localities.

Have personal lived experience of mental health difficulties and recovery.

Be able to use your lived experience safely, effectively, and appropriately to support others and inform service development.

Have experience of supporting, mentoring, supervising, or leading others.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about peer support and wants to take the next step in their career by leading and developing a team of Peer Support Workers. If you want to help shape services, inspire others, and ensure lived experience remains central to recovery, we would love to hear from you.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence