About the Job

ID: 1548 Peer Support Worker
Medway Pregnancy to Three & Start for Life Support Service

Salary: £24,206 FTE – Pro rata amount - £14,719

Location: Medway, Kent

Hours: 22.5 hours per week (part-time) We offer flexible working arrangements – please see below for more details

Contract: Temporary until 31.03.26 (possibility of extension subject to funding)

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] & the Role’s Impact:
At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.

We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a well-established team already supporting families during pregnancy and up to when their child is three years old. The programme’s objective is to join up and enhance services delivered through transformed family hubs in local authority areas, ensuring all parents and carers can access the support they need when they need it. As a Peer Support Worker you will work alongside the team to deliver 1-2-1 support, in service users homes and out in the community. This role provides an opportunity to be involved in a holistic approach to Perinatal Mental Health, offering well-being support to a wide range of families with young children and babies.

Main Responsibilities

• Work alongside the team to deliver a range of 1-2-1 support to facilitate parents’ understanding and awareness, to understand the emotional needs of their infants and to promote a secure attachment.
• Work alongside other Peer Support staff across a variety of external agencies, building a consistent approach and strong working relationships. Building relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure that parents receive coordinated support.
• Be involved in the planning, organisation, and delivery of evidence-based group work with parents and their babies. Supporting the development of resources in specific areas, Anxiety Management, Intrusive Thoughts, etc to deliver to families.
• Build a keen understanding of Group Work offered within Targeted and Universal Services to ensure that families being supported individually can also integrate into group support.
• Ensure you keep consistent communication with the families we support, working alongside the wider team to maintain engagement in other support offered by our service.
• To undertake child-focused assessments in partnership with parents to establish an understanding of the child and parent’s needs, any existing or potential risk and to gain knowledge of the ‘Childs’ lived experience’ and parental challenges.
• Using information gained through the assessment to develop a child centered, targeted, trauma informed whole family outcome focused plan and risk assessment with parents for their engagement with the service.
• Appointments are subject to [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] receiving a satisfactory Enhanced DBS from the Disclosure and Barring Service

Benefits

• an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days pro-rata, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
• up to 6% matched-pension contributions
• flexible working arrangements and new starters have the right to make flexible working requests from day one of employment
• enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
• eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
• cycle to work scheme
• investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

To Apply

Click 'Apply Now' to complete our online application form by the closing date 12th of September 2025 at 23:59

For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

All appointments with [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.