Peer support worker

LifeLine Projects; Greater London; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

LifeLine Projects, in partnership with NELFT, seeks a Peer Support Worker to join the Mental Health & Wellbeing Team in Barking & Dagenham. You will use your lived experience to provide hope, practical support and encouragement on the recovery journey.

You will work with a multidisciplinary team, help people build strengths, set personal goals, and connect with community resources, with a focus on engaging underrepresented communities and creating inclusive services.

Qualifications

• Must have a sustained phase of own mental health recovery.
• Able to manage wellbeing and share lived experience safely.
• Based in Redbridge is preferred to support local access.
• Will engage with underrepresented communities, including South Asian women and younger Black men.

Responsibilities

• Provide hope, practical support and encouragement to individuals on their recovery journey.
• Work alongside a multidisciplinary team to support goal setting and access to community resources.
• Build trust and reduce stigma through compassionate, lived-experience-informed practice.
• Engage diverse communities to ensure services are accessible and inclusive.

Skills

Lived experience

Peer support

Diversity engagement

Job description

• 18.75 hours a week with weekend and evening rota
• NELFT, Lifeline House, and the community of Barking and Dagenham
• Permanent

Description

Lifeline Projects works in partnership with NELFT to deliver community-based peer support that improves mental health and wellbeing outcomes.

The Peer Support Worker will be an integral member of the Mental Health & Wellbeing Team, using their own lived experience of mental health recovery to provide hope, practical support, and encouragement to individuals on their recovery journey. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, they will help people build on their strengths, achieve personal goals, and access appropriate community resources.

The role includes a strong focus on engaging underrepresented communities, particularly South Asian women, younger Black men, and older Black men, while ensuring services remain inclusive and accessible to everyone. The successful candidate will understand the barriers created by cultural stigma, racism, migration, housing insecurity, and other inequalities, using their lived experience to build trust, reduce stigma, and empower others.

Applicants must be in a sustained stage of their own recovery, able to manage their wellbeing effectively, and confident in sharing their lived experience safely and professionally. Living within the Redbridge community would be an advantage.