Peer Support Work Coordinator: Sponsorship Available

North London NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

Peer support workers draw on their lived experience of mental illness and treatment to enhance the care of current service users. This is done by:o Offering practical advice and support to patients. Empathetically sharing personal experiences of illness, treatment and recovery. Providing input into policy, culture and service development initiatives. Cofacilitating therapeutic activities with service users

As a Peer Support Work Coordinator, you will use your skills and experience as above, and further enhance the contribution of the team by:o Coordinating peer support interventions. Providing support and advice to the Peer Support Workers in your team. Organising peer support workers to deliver therapeutic activities.

Please note, that to apply for this role you cannot be under section as a service user of the North London NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Camden & Islington and Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust).

 

Main duties of the job

As a Peer Support Work Coordinator (PSWC) your role will be to enhance the care and support we provide to our Service Users by:

  •  Providing mentoring and administrative support to a team of Peer Support Workers
  • Providing practical and emotional advice and support to Service Users on their road to recovery in groups or through structured one to one peer support sessions.
  • Sharing the wisdom from you own lived experience, inspiring hope and belief that recovery is possible for others.
  • Taking a lead in representing the value of Lived Experience, Co-Production and Co-Facilitation in our services.
  • Helping to develop and facilitate staff training and assist the Service’s managers with recruitment by sitting on interview panels for prospective new staff.
  • Being actively involved in the ongoing development of our lived experience provision across the trust.
  • You will be given training, mentoring and supervision to ensure that you are confident and feel supported in your role.

As valued member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will work with service users on a 1:1 and/or group basis for the majority of your time. You will also have the opportunity to develop the peer support service, attend training, work on projects and collaborate with colleagues from other specialisms.

You will be reporting to and be supervised by one of the User Engagement Leads. You will receive additional supervision and support from the Trust’s Lived Experience Managers.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Lived Experience of Mental Illness
  • Experience of peer support work

Desirable

  • Lived Experience of Section

Skills

Essential

  • Evidence of professional & organisational skills

Presentation

Essential

  • Ability to communicate effectively in writing & in-person

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 23 June 2025

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