About this role
Job summary
Use your lived experience to lead, inspire, and make a difference.
We are looking for a compassionate, motivated, and recovery-focused Peer Coordinator to join our Community Mental Health Teams.
This role will use your personal experience of mental health challenges and recovery to lead and support a team of Peer Support Workers, ensuring that lived experience remains at the heart of the care we provide.
As a Peer Coordinator, you will:
Provide day-to-day leadership, support, and supervision to Peer Support Workers.
Support the recruitment, induction, development, and wellbeing of Peer Support Workers.
Promote recovery, empowerment, and person-centred approaches to care.
Help develop and improve peer support services, ensuring the voice of people with lived experience is heard and valued.
You will:
Have personal lived experience of mental health difficulties and recovery.
Be able to use your lived experience safely, effectively, and appropriately to support others and inform service development.
Have experience of supporting, mentoring, supervising, or leading others.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about peer support and wants to take the next step in their career by leading and developing a team of Peer Support Workers. If you want to help shape services, inspire others, and ensure lived experience remains central to recovery, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Peer Support Coordinator 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 CMHT Peer Support Team, ensuring consistent, recovery-focused peer support is delivered across all localities.
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 description 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 Essential
Level 4 Peer Support accredited training or commitment to work towards GCSEs or equivalent qualifications, or agreed equivalent experience Knowledge of working with people Excellent understanding of Peer Support Commitment to undertaking continual personal development
Desirable
Training for lived experience practitioners Evidence of further related training. Health related qualification. Recovery college qualification.
Experience Essential
Lived experience of managing mental ill health and recovery, and accessing secondary mental health services. Ability to support others in a recovery orientated way. Leadership skills and experience, able to motivate and lead a team. Good motivational techniques and abilities. Evidence of working within a team environment and ability to develop and maintain constructive working relationships with colleagues. Understanding of how lived experience of mental health conditions can be used to support others. Understanding of recovery focussed principles and how they can influence support for service users. Understands the impact of stigma and discrimination. Good knowledge of mental health problems Basic working knowledge of the NHS & mental health service provision Clear effective planning and decision-making skills.
Desirable
Experience of contributing to a research project or audit. Experience of collaborative working alongside professionals in either a statutory or non-statutory mental health service. Experience of group work interventions. Experience of working with statutory & non-statutory agencies Knowledge of interventions which embrace social & health care needs. E.g., therapies, ECT, medication, recovery education Understanding of service user involvement andparticipation and why it is important.
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 details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Gosport War Memorial Hospital
Bury Road
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 3PW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)