Senior Peer Support Worker
The closing date is 13 July 2026
Senior Peer Facilitator: Band 4 – 0.5 WTE. This vacancy is not eligible for sponsorship.
We are looking for a Senior Peer Facilitator to join our Early Intervention Service in Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. If you have lived experience of using mental health services and a passion for supporting others, you could play a pivotal role in promoting recovery and empowering service users.
The Senior Peer Facilitator will lead and support a peer workforce, helping to recruit, train and mentor Peer Facilitators across the Trust. You will champion the importance of lived experience in person‑centred care and work alongside clinical teams to embed recovery principles and co‑production of care plans.
Main duties of the job
- Provide visible leadership and support to peer facilitators and wider teams in the design and delivery of the peer workforce agenda.
- Support recruitment, training and supervision of peer facilitators.
- Co‑produce and co‑deliver health, wellbeing and social opportunities that promote personal recovery.
- Develop standards and networks for peer workforce roles across LSCFT.
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to ensure inclusive access to recovery‑focused opportunities, empowering service users to gain control and hope.
- Develop the Library of Lived Experience to engage staff and service users, championing learning from lived experience.
- Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information, and discuss multi‑stranded, delicate issues.
- Overcome barriers to understanding when dealing with service users with complex mental health needs.
- Work closely with the clinical team, service users, colleagues and other professionals, ensuring clear written and verbal communication.
- Contribute to individual service users’ care/recovery plans, assisting them to set and achieve goals.
- Assist staff in identifying alternative ways of working conducive to recovery.
- Establish supportive relationships with service users, enabling them to maximise their own resources to improve their quality of life.
- Communicate effectively with patients, carers, visitors, colleagues, third‑sector organisations and other professionals, promoting awareness of the peer role.
About us
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion, belief or sexual orientation.
We particularly encourage applications from under‑represented groups and support flexible working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi‑time.
Our wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help staff thrive both in and out of work.
Job responsibilities
- Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information and discuss multi‑stranded issues.
- Overcome barriers to understanding when dealing with complex mental health needs.
- Work in close collaboration with the clinical team, service users, colleagues and other professionals, ensuring clear written and verbal communication.
- Contribute to care/recovery plans for individual service users and assist them in identifying and setting goals to enable recovery.
- Assist staff in identifying alternative ways of working that are conducive to recovery.
- Establish supportive relationships with service users, enabling them to maximise their own resources to improve quality of life.
- Communicate effectively with patients, carers, visitors, colleagues, third‑sector organisations and other professionals; promote awareness and understanding of the role.
Person Specification
Education / Qualification
- Good level of secondary education in Maths and English at GCSE grade C/5 or above or equivalent.
- Level 3 Peer Worker Apprenticeship or equivalent qualification; or commitment to work towards a Level 3 Peer Worker Apprenticeship.
Knowledge
- Lived experience of mental health illness and of accessing secondary care services.
- Wide range of life experiences to bring an enabling and positive view of opportunities for others.
- Understanding of the issues and concerns of mental health service users.
- Practical knowledge of recovery, peer support and co‑production/involvement.
- Awareness of treatment outcomes, recovery tools, care planning and risk assessment.
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007).
Experience
- Experience in a mental health peer support / facilitation role.
- Ability to maintain boundaries and form a positive therapeutic relationship with service users and carers.
- Practical support with daily living activities.
- Experience liaising with other agencies and partners.
Personal
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems and their carers.
- Ability to work closely and form good working relationships with a wide range of people.
Other
- Where applicable, ability to meet mobility requirements of the post.
- Ability to travel across a geographical area and various locations within the trust footprint.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address: The Gateway – Blackpool Football Stadium, Seasiders Way
Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year subject to confirmation (pro rata for part time hours).
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part‑time
Reference number
351‑BAY1020‑TG
Job location
The Gateway – Blackpool Football Stadium, Seasiders Way
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