Recovery-Focused Peer Support Specialist

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

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.