Peer Support Worker

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust; Havant; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust in Havant is seeking compassionate Peer Support Workers to join our Community Mental Health Team. The role draws on lived experience to support others on their recovery journey and to help build hope and resilience.

You will form trusting relationships, provide emotional and practical support, encourage independence, and help people access community resources and activities, working alongside clinicians in a supportive MDT.

Qualifications

• Must have lived experience of mental health challenges and recovery.
• Strong communication and listening skills are essential.
• Commitment to recovery-focused and person-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Build positive and trusting relationships with service users.
• Provide emotional and practical support through shared lived experience.
• Encourage recovery, independence, and wellbeing.
• Help people access community resources, groups, and activities.
• Work alongside clinicians and other professionals as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Lived experience of mental health

Communication skills

Listening skills

Job description

Use your lived experience to make a difference.

We are looking for compassionate and motivated Peer Support Workers to join our Community Mental Health Team.

This unique role uses your personal experience of mental health challenges and recovery to support others on their own journey. By sharing your experiences appropriately, you will help people build hope, confidence, and resilience while working towards the goals that matter to them.

As a Peer Support Worker, you will:

• Build positive and trusting relationships with service users.
• Provide emotional and practical support through shared lived experience.
• Encourage recovery, independence, and wellbeing.
• Help people access community resources, groups, and activities.
• Work alongside clinicians and other professionals as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.

You will:

• Have lived experience of mental health difficulties and recovery.
• Be able to use your experiences safely and positively to support others.
• Have excellent communication and listening skills.
• Be passionate about recovery-focused and person-centred care.
• Enjoy working with people and helping them achieve their goals.

If you are passionate about supporting others and want to use your experience to inspire hope and recovery, we would love to hear from you.

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.