# Peer Support Worker > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/peer-support-worker/a36d7ee1-16b6-459c-859a-cdef98390cbe - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/peer-support-worker/a36d7ee1-16b6-459c-859a-cdef98390cbe.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Petersfield Hospital; Gosport War Memorial Hospital; St Marys Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Peer supporter - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 to £27,476 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working - **Closing date:** 2026-09-15T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T11:52:12.644Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9348-26-1883 - **Application URL:** https://southernhealth.tal.net/vx/candidate/apply/12422?instant=apply - **Employer website:** https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary Use your lived experience to make a difference. We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Peer Support Worker 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. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will use their personal lived experiences of recovery from mental health challenges to offer empathy and understanding to others, inspiring hope and belief that recovery is possible. In this role, the peer worker will offer empathetic support alongside practical assistance in order to empower people to feel in control of their lives and their own unique recovery process. Within a relationship of mutuality and information sharing, they will promote choice, self-determination and opportunities for the fulfilment of socially valued roles and connection to local communities. The peer support worker will act as a recovery champion within the team, and an ambassador for recovery for the Trust when working with external agencies and partner organisations. Peer workers will also 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 ### Details - Date posted: 01 September 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 3 - Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year Based on full time hours - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working - Reference number: 348-PSE-12422 - Job locations: The Parkway Centre - Havant, 51 Leigh Road, Havant, Hampshire, PO9 2BF, United Kingdom, Petersfield Hospital, Swan Street, Petersfield, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU32 3LB, United Kingdom, Fareham Community Hospital, Brook Lane, Sarisbury Green, Fareham, Hampshire, SO31 7DQ, United Kingdom, Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Bury Road, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 3PW, United Kingdom, St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth), Milton Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 6AD, United Kingdom ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - Personal lived experience of mental health distress. - Personal experience of accessing primary or secondary mental health service. - Basic understanding of Peer Support - Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way. - Good motivational techniques and abilities. - Clear effective planning and decision-making skills. - Understanding of how lived experience of mental health problems can be used to support others - Understanding of recovery - focussed principles and how they can influence support for service users. - Understanding of the issues and concerns that people using services may have in relation to their care. - Able to maintain the profile of the peer support service within a multidisciplinary/ multi-agency setting. - Demonstrates the ability to role model, empower and enable others, - Good organisational skills and time management. - Ability to receive highly complex and sensitive information and maintain confidentiality. - Ability to use information and communication technology (computer literacy) ### Qualifications **Essential** - Level 4 Peer Support accredited training or commitment to work towards **Desirable** - Training for lived experience practitioners - Evidence of further related training. - Health related qualification. - Recovery college qualification. ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.