Peer Support Worker | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust

We are looking for a person who is passionate about working with a range of patients who experience eating disorders (some of whom are difficult to engage). The post is part-time (22.5 hours per week).

The role involves a range of supportive tasks including direct clinical contact with service users; co-facilitating groups; offering support and motivation to patients on their recovery journey.

The role will require good organisation skills, creative thinking and problem solving, as well as teamwork and passion. It is essential that you have personal lived experience of an eating disorder from which you have recovered.

The Adult Eating Disorders service is a large well-established service with an experienced multidisciplinary team of clinicians. The post holder would be working in the Out-Patient team. The team works with a caseload of approximately 200 clients with eating disorders from the 5 boroughs that the Trust serves.

We are excited to add peer support worker roles to the service. The team enjoys agile working so there is the opportunity to do some work from home but there is an expectation of face-to-face sessions so the ability to travel to our main base at Springfield and other Trust and community locations is essential. There is opportunity for joint working, monthly in house CPD meetings, a robust induction, support from our Involvement Team and excellent supervision.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together.We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

About our location

This post will be based at Springfield Hospital

Unless expressly stated in the job advert this role is not subject to sponsorship, please be advised that all offers of employment are subject to evidence of right to work in the UK.

To work with the multi-disciplinary team to provide additional support to people with eating disorders using the principles and values of peer support

Delivering time-limited, outcome focused interventions individually or via groups that build on peoples existing resources and personal resiliencies

To assume a ‘coaching’ role supporting service users in developing personal recovery and/or Crisis & Contingency plans

To assist service users to identify their strengths, personal interests and goals

To provide opportunities for service users to direct their own recovery process

To facilitate the individual to move through and beyond mental health services

To model/mentor a recovery process and demonstrate coping skills, using own experience of recovery.

To act as a role model to service users to inspire hope, share life experiences and lessons learned as a person in recovery.

To signpost and support access to a breath of culturally appropriate services that support mental wellbeing in the community this may include access to social care, welfare benefits and housing support.

To support service users in attending appointments, therapeutic or social community based activities as appropriate to enable them to manage in the absence of peer support in the future

To support services you who might be interested in developing professionally within the peer support field, by identifying their needs and facilitating access to vocational, professional and training opportunities.

To work independently following all lone-working, safeguarding and other relevant policies in order to maintain personal safety and safety of people accessing services, their carers, friends and families and the public

To raise the profile of the lived experience workforce at SWLStG

To develop and maintain effective monitoring and reporting processes that clarify the value of peer support alongside clinical roles and the impact of delivered interventions.

To continue the development and implementation of existing peer support interventions or to plan and deliver new peer support work both in theory and practice.

This advert closes on Sunday 24 May 2026