Senior Peer Support Worker

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Remote work

Part-time role

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Peer Support Worker to join the Southern Gambling Service (SGS). The role is part-time (22.5 hours) and predominantly remote, with occasional travel for training and meetings at Trust sites in Hampshire.

You will draw on lived experience of gambling recovery to offer hope and practical support, supervise the SGS Peer Support Team, and help co-develop evidence-based interventions across localities.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Use personal experiences to promote hope and recovery and support people to feel in control.
• Be a key member of a small team of registered and peer support workers.
• Co-develop, review and co-deliver innovative evidence-based interventions.
• Supervise Peer Support Staff.
• Liaise with primary, secondary and community organisations and coordinate training as needed.
• Act as a recovery champion within the team and an ambassador for recovery.

Skills

Knowledge of working with people

Excellent understanding of PeerSupport

Commitment to continual personal تطوير

Education

GCSEs or equivalent qualifications

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Peer Support Worker

The closing date is 15 November 2026

Due to service expansion, an exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an additional Senior Peer Support Worker within the Southern Gambling Service (SGS). The role is part-time at 22.5 hours. We are seeking an individual who has lived experience of gambling difficulties and recovery and is passionate about reducing stigma and shame and increasing access to gambling treatment. We recognise the value peer support brings to our service as part of integrated treatment pathways. We are a regional NHS gambling service based at College Keep in Southampton, but the role will involve predominantly remote working from home. The team meet monthly, in person, at College Keep and some mandatory training will require traveling to Trust sites in Hampshire.

The Senior Peer Support Worker 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 postholder will provide day-to-day coordination, supervision and support to the Southern Gambling Service Peer Support Team, ensuring consistent, recovery-focused peer support is delivered across all localities.

Main duties of the job

• use their personal experiences to promote hope and recovery in order to support others who are overcoming mental health challenges . Using peer values alongside practical assistance, they will work individually and in groups to support people to feel in control of their lives, choices and unique recovery process in line with their recovery plan.
• be a key member of a small newly developing team of registered and peer support workers
• work with the team to co-develop, review and when applicable co-deliver innovative evidence-based interventions.
• will have supervisory responsibility of Peer Support Staff
• liaise between primary, secondary and community organisations. To jointly work with stake holders to identify where consultation or training is required and coordinating or developing this.
• act as a recovery champion within the team, and an ambassador for recovery for the Trust when working with external agencies and partner organisations.

be supported to continue their own personal and professional development as well as taking part in the ongoing development of peer roles in the Trust

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

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

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

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 name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£28,392 to £31,157 a yearBased on Full Time hours

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time,Flexible working,Home or remote working