Peer Support Worker | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	30 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£30,546 - £32,207 per annum inclusive of HCAs pro rata
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	29 April 2026
Location:	Beckenham, BR3 3BX
Company:	South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7802011/334-NUR-7802011-TA

Summary

We are excited to be able to offer a unique opportunity in South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation trust to take up a role as a Peer Support Worker (PSW) in the Forensic Services Pathway. These roles have become available through funding for Patient & Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF) project funding. PCREF is a Trust-wide initiative to improve equity in access, experience, and outcomes for all our communities, with an initial focus on Black communities. The contribution of this PSW role is to work with Community Forensic Mental Health Teams (CFMHT) to support minorised users, with the support of their families and carers. Funding is available for 16 hours a week (0.4 wte). The funding for the roles will require providing peer support in one of the four borough's CFMHT team. Candidates will be asked as to their preferred location at interview.

The aim of this role is to support service users as part of the Trust's equity and anti-racism commitment to minorised communities in forensic services. The role will involve working with with service users, carers, and their families to design and deliver services. This support will involve peer support and advocacy ensuring that patients’ voices are heard. Peer Support Workers will use their own lived experiences of mental health issues/services to help others, providing a space where individuals feel respected, accepted, and understood. They will understand that everyone’s experience will be unique but will treat everyone’s experience as being equally important. This role will need individuals who acknowledge the inherent challenges of racism for Black communities within traditional mental health services. The role will also involve encouraging Black service users and carers to co-produce care plans and advocate for themselves; gathering information to inform them of their options and providing formal feedback to staff in secure settings and the Directorate Leadership team.



The postholder will work closely with staff of the CFMHT's, clinical supervisors, and the PSW Coordinator, and be line managed in Forensic Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organizations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.

To work with service users who are on the Forensic Community Mental Health Teams of the relevant SLaM boroughs, or in-reach to hospital wards.

To support black and mixed black service users in Forensic Mental Health Community services in a culturally appropriate way and support Forensic Services to embed the ACD approach and to support harm minimisation for substance mis-use in a culturally-congruent manner.

Contribute to feedback and evaluation following interventions and provide insights on patient’s participation, including any concerns or suggestions.

To call and/or meet with service users in the community or on wards, or other convenient places, to help them prepare for meetings and to attend appointments with them to speak on their behalf where they unable or do not have the capacity, take notes, and ensure that they understand the proceedings

To work effectively as a member of Forensic teams and the wider multidisciplinary team.


This advert closes on Sunday 12 Apr 2026