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Job Title


Peer Support Team Leader (The Lighthouse)


Company : Solent Mind


Location : Southampton, England


Created : 2025-07-19


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Job DescriptionAbout the role As a key senior member of The Lighthouse team, you will play a vital part in helping people experiencing or at risk of a mental health crisis, in partnership with our mental health nursing and allied health care professional colleagues from Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. You will supervise peer staff on shift, as well providing direct support to service users. 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. Hours: 22.5 hours per week (2 shifts 4pm to 12 midnight) and 1 day 7.5 hours of administrative time per week. Location: Onsite, between Bitterne and Shirley crises centres (Southampton) 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. About us We're Solent Mind! We’re part of a network of over 100 Local Min...