Overview
Salary: £21,600.00 to £23,269.19 per annum (£24,975 to £26,905 full time equivalent) Solent Mind Band B
Hours: 32 hours per week
Location: Portsmouth Wellbeing Centre
Interview Date: to be confirmed
Closing Date: Monday 13 July 2026 (11.59pm)
Role details
This is a fixed term contract for 6 months (linked to project funding) starting on 1 August 2026. The Peer Worker will support the delivery of a wellbeing drop-in and targeted one-to-one support service at Solent Mind’s Portsmouth Wellbeing Centre. The role helps people experiencing mental health problems and financial hardship to access early support, build confidence, and engage with appropriate advice and community services.
The postholder will use a peer support approach to provide emotional wellbeing support, practical encouragement, and guided navigation for people who may feel overwhelmed, excluded, or unable to access mainstream advice services independently. The service is designed to reduce financial vulnerability and help prevent repeated cycles of crisis by supporting people to take practical steps towards improving their financial resilience.
This includes supporting people through open-access drop-ins, providing follow-up one-to-one sessions, helping with forms and online applications, and enabling warm connections into specialist services such as money advice, Jobcentre Plus, welfare support, housing support and other local agencies.
About you
You will bring to the role:
- Understanding of peer support principles, including mutuality, hope, empowerment, choice and recovery
- Personal lived experience of mental health challenges
- Understanding of how financial hardship, debt, poverty, housing issues, employment difficulties and mental health can affect each other
- Good communication and listening skills
- Basic IT skills
- Teamwork
You will be able to work within confidentiality, safeguarding, boundaries and data protection.
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. 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: Solent Mind Talent Acquisition team or 023 8201 1718.
Additional information
Job description person specification. Note to applicants: you will be asked about gaps in your employment at interview and you will need to provide proof of your right to work in the UK before you start your employment. We cannot sponsor this role as we do not hold a sponsorship licence. Any offer for this role will be subject to a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and obtaining 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.
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