Peer Support Coordinator

Hampshire And Isle Of Wight Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Part time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Part-time Peer Support Coordinator on the Isle of Wight. The role includes line management and supporting the Acute Peer Support Team to deliver recovery-focused peer support.

Applicants must have lived experience of managing mental health and recovery and the right to work in the UK. Full job description and contact details are available in the advert.

Qualifications

• GCSEs or equivalent qualifications or agreed equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of working with people and understanding of Peer Support.
• Commitment to continual personal development.
• Evidence of lived experience of mental ill health and recovery.
• Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way.

Responsibilities

• Line manage, supervise and support the Acute Peer Support Team.
• Act as a point of contact for Peer Support Workers and manage workload balances.
• Support induction, mentoring and development of Peer Support Workers.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external partners.
• Promote awareness of the Peer Support Service within teams and partner organisations.
• Manage referrals to the peer support service.

Skills

Lived experience

Motivational techniques

Team collaboration

Planning & decision-making

Understanding recovery principles

Stigma awareness

Education

GCSEs or equivalent

Health-related qualification

Recovery college qualification

Peer Support Worker training

Mental Health First Aid Training

Job description

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Peer Support Coordinator to join our team on the Isle of Wight. This is a part time role for 30 hrs per week. 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 post holder will provide day-to-day coordination, supervision and support to the Acute Peer Support Team, ensuring consistent, recovery-focused peer support is delivered across all localities. At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Main duties of the job

• Line manage, supervise and support the Acute Peer Support Team, promoting wellbeing, boundaries and consistent practice.
• Act as a point of contact for Peer Support Workers, supporting workload balance, problem-solving and escalation of concerns to the designated lead.
• Support induction, mentoring and ongoing development of Peer Support Workers in line with Trust expectations and scope of role.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and external partners including housing, employment, education, primary care and voluntary sector organisations.
• Promote awareness of the Peer Support Service within teams and partner organisations.
• Manage referrals to the peer support service and proactively identify individuals who may benefit from peer support.

About us

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

Details

Date posted: 28 September 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 4

Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year

Based on full time hours

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 348-IOW-12486

Job locations: Sevenacres, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GCSEs or equivalent qualifications, or agreed equivalent experience
• Knowledge of working with people
• Excellent understanding of Peer Support
• Commitment to undertaking continual personal development

Desirable

• Health related qualification.
• Recovery college qualification
• Completed accredited Peer Support Worker training -- or currently working towards it.
• Mental Health First Aid Training (or similar).

Experience

Essential

• Lived experience of managing mental ill health and recovery, and accessing secondary mental health services.
• Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way.
• Good motivational techniques and abilities.
• Evidence of working within a team environment and ability to develop and maintain constructive working relationships with colleagues.
• Understanding of how lived experience of mental health conditions can be used to support others.
• Understanding of recovery focussed principles and how they can influence support for service users.
• Understands the impact of stigma and discrimination.
• Good knowledge of mental health problems
• Basic working knowledge of the NHS & mental health service provision
• Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.
• Basic working knowledge of the NHS & mental health service provision.
• Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.

Desirable

• Experience of contributing to a research project or audit.
• Experience of collaborative working alongside professionals in either a statutory or non-statutory mental health service.
• Experience of group work interventions.
• Experience of working with statutory & non-statutory agencies
• Knowledge of interventions which embrace social & health care needs. E.g., therapies, ECT, medication, recovery education
• Understanding of service user involvement and participation and why it is important.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Sevenacres, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG, United Kingdom

Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Hiring Manager, Launa Crow, [e-mail], 019838220992440

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.