Senior Peer Specialist (Crisis Support)
| Posting date: | 30 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,895.95 to £30,048.65 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £27,895.95 to £30,048.65 (£34,405 to £37,060 full-time equivalent) - Solent Mind Crisis Services Band C (includes unsocial hours enhancements) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 April 2026 |
| Location: | Southampton, Hampshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Solent Mind |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | REQ00598 |
Summary
30 hours per week – (4 shifts) (Working evenings on a rota basis, 4pm to Midnight shifts, with weekend/bank holiday working essential)
About the role
The Lighthouse offers support to people experiencing or at risk of a crisis, delivered in partnership between Solent Mind and Hampshire and IOW NHS Foundation Trust. As a well-established Crisis service supporting our community over the last 6 years, we are recruiting for a Senior Peer Specialist for our every expanding team. The Lighthouse offers face to face support at our Southampton centres in Bitterne and Shirley alongside a remote service using text and telephone, through an integrated team of peer and nursing staff.
As a Senior Peer Support Specialist, you will be using your own mental health experiences to support, encourage and inspire others. This work will include the following elements:
Offering support, co-ordination and supervision to a small team of peer workers.
Taking a lead role in the delivery of face to face support to people who are in distress, by providing a safe space for them to talk and make sense of their experiences and sharing your own experiences in an appropriate way where helpful.
Contributing to the ongoing development of the service and partnership.
These posts will involve 4pm-12midnight shifts on a rota basis which will include weekends and bank holidays. Unsocial hours enhancements have been applied in line with the NHS enhancement rates for all hours worked on weekends/bank holidays and after 8pm weekdays.
About you
You will need to have personal, lived experience of a mental health issue. As well as the confidence and aptitude to supervise and support staff within a busy service, and to calmly and effectively take a lead on day-to-day face to face operations, by implement processes and policies and managing risk whilst supporting people who are distressed and/or in crisis.
Please explain in your personal statement how you meet each of the criteria from the person specification.
About us
Solent Mind is the largest mental health charity in Hampshire. It is part of a network of 125 local Minds in England and Wales, which are independent charities affiliated to Mind, the national mental health charity. Solent Mind has its own board of trustees and raises its own funds to deliver its services, support and training tailored to the needs of people living in Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight. Solent Mind has a gold award for workplace wellbeing index 2022/2023 and has signed up to be a mindful employer.
For further details on this role please email:
Ellie Colman, Peer Support Team Leader ecolman@solentmind.org.uk
Solent Mind Talent Acquisition team careers@solentmind.org.uk or 023 8201 1718
NOTE TO APPLICANTS - You will be asked about gaps in your employment and to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at interview. Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor this role as we do not hold a sponsorship licence. Any offer for this role will be subject to an Enhanced Adult Workforce and Adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and receiving your references.
We welcome people from all the communities we work in to apply for a role within Solent Mind, especially those with experience of mental health problems. Offers are made based on merit.
Please submit your application as early as possible, as we may close this advert before the advertised closing date.
About the role
The Lighthouse offers support to people experiencing or at risk of a crisis, delivered in partnership between Solent Mind and Hampshire and IOW NHS Foundation Trust. As a well-established Crisis service supporting our community over the last 6 years, we are recruiting for a Senior Peer Specialist for our every expanding team. The Lighthouse offers face to face support at our Southampton centres in Bitterne and Shirley alongside a remote service using text and telephone, through an integrated team of peer and nursing staff.
As a Senior Peer Support Specialist, you will be using your own mental health experiences to support, encourage and inspire others. This work will include the following elements:
Offering support, co-ordination and supervision to a small team of peer workers.
Taking a lead role in the delivery of face to face support to people who are in distress, by providing a safe space for them to talk and make sense of their experiences and sharing your own experiences in an appropriate way where helpful.
Contributing to the ongoing development of the service and partnership.
These posts will involve 4pm-12midnight shifts on a rota basis which will include weekends and bank holidays. Unsocial hours enhancements have been applied in line with the NHS enhancement rates for all hours worked on weekends/bank holidays and after 8pm weekdays.
About you
You will need to have personal, lived experience of a mental health issue. As well as the confidence and aptitude to supervise and support staff within a busy service, and to calmly and effectively take a lead on day-to-day face to face operations, by implement processes and policies and managing risk whilst supporting people who are distressed and/or in crisis.
Please explain in your personal statement how you meet each of the criteria from the person specification.
About us
Solent Mind is the largest mental health charity in Hampshire. It is part of a network of 125 local Minds in England and Wales, which are independent charities affiliated to Mind, the national mental health charity. Solent Mind has its own board of trustees and raises its own funds to deliver its services, support and training tailored to the needs of people living in Hampshire, Southampton, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight. Solent Mind has a gold award for workplace wellbeing index 2022/2023 and has signed up to be a mindful employer.
For further details on this role please email:
Ellie Colman, Peer Support Team Leader ecolman@solentmind.org.uk
Solent Mind Talent Acquisition team careers@solentmind.org.uk or 023 8201 1718
NOTE TO APPLICANTS - You will be asked about gaps in your employment and to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at interview. Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor this role as we do not hold a sponsorship licence. Any offer for this role will be subject to an Enhanced Adult Workforce and Adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and receiving your references.
We welcome people from all the communities we work in to apply for a role within Solent Mind, especially those with experience of mental health problems. Offers are made based on merit.
Please submit your application as early as possible, as we may close this advert before the advertised closing date.