Peer Worker - Health Inequalities and PCREF

A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

Are you passionate about using your lived experience to challenge health inequalities and make mental health services fairer for everyone?

We’re looking for a Health Inequalities & PCREF Peer Worker to play a key role in delivering our Health Inequalities Strategy and the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF). You’ll use your lived experience to advocate for people from racialised and underserved communities, provide peer support, and work alongside service users, staff and community partners to co-produce meaningful change.

This role is ideal for someone who is empathetic, confident, and committed to anti-racist and inclusive practice, with a strong belief in recovery, empowerment and co-production.

Join us and help ensure that lived experience genuinely shapes services and improves mental health outcomes across our Trust.

The Mental Health Inequalities Peer Worker will use their lived experience to support the delivery of the Trust’s Health Inequalities Strategic Plan (2025–2030), ensuring meaningful involvement of service users, and staff in implementing the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF). Working closely with the Involvement & Co-production Team, the Associate Director of Health Inequalities, and community partners, they will promote co-production, support peer-led initiatives, share accessible information, and strengthen engagement with underrepresented communities to help tackle inequality and improve mental health outcomes.

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.

Lived Experience Leadership

Champion the involvement of people with lived experience in the design, delivery, and evaluation of services, particularly in implementing PCREF priorities.

Facilitate regular debriefs and reflective spaces to gather feedback and share insights with leadership.

Collaboration & Co-production

Work closely with the Involvement & Co-production Team, Associate Director of Health Inequalities, and community partners to embed co-produced approaches throughout the Trust.

Support the development of peer-led initiatives addressing health inequalities and racial disparities.

Community Engagement

Strengthen links with voluntary and grassroots organisations to ensure

underrepresented communities are actively involved in service design and delivery.

Promote trust, inclusion, and accessibility in engagement activities.

Information Sharing & Advocacy

Disseminate accessible information about health inequalities, PCREF, and

involvement opportunities across the Trust and communities.

Support service users in understanding and exercising their rights, including access to advocacy and co-produced care planning.

Workforce Support

Contribute to training and development for staff and peer workers on culturally competent, anti-racist, and inclusive practice.

Support the recruitment, mentoring, and supervision of new peer support workers from diverse backgrounds. General

This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the postholder may be

required to undertake other duties which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the Associate Director of health Inequalities or other senior staff.

This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the postholder.

The postholder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal, Opportunities and Confidentiality of Information.

The postholder is responsible for ensuring that the work that they undertake is conducted in a manner which is safe to themselves and others, and for adhering to the advice and instructions on Health and Safety matters given by Manager(s). If postholders consider that a hazard to Health and Safety exists, it is their responsibility to report this to their

manager(s).

The postholder is expected to comply with the appropriate Code(s) of Conduct associated with this post.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust operates a no smoking policy. The Trust has been smoke-free since 01 January 2006.

South West London and St. Georges Mental Health Trust is an equal opportunities employer. It is the policy of the Trust to ensure that no user of the service, past, present or future employee, or job applicant, receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation, in line with the Trust's Equality and Diversity approach.

This advert closes on Thursday 14 May 2026