Peer Support Coordinator

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust on the Isle of Wight is recruiting a part-time Peer Support Coordinator (30 hours per week). The post relies on lived experience of mental health recovery to inspire hope and practical guidance within the Acute Peer Support Team.

You will line-manage and support peers, coordinate workloads, and work with multidisciplinary teams and external partners to ensure recovery-focused peer support across localities.

Qualifications

• Personal experience of managing mental health and recovery is required.
• Ability to provide hope, empathy and practical perspective through support.
• Right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Peer support

Line management

Coordination

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

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.

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.