Peer Support Officer

Ref:000050 | Peer Support Officer | Home-based Gloucestershire, as part of the South West, Wessex & Channel Islands locality team

However, frequent travel will be required as part of this role (may include team meetings or other work-related meetings) | This is a fixed-term contract for 1 year |

Salary circa £17,800 per annum | 21 hours per week

We currently have funding for this service for 1 year.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the South West, Wessex and Channel Islands service delivery team to support our exciting work in Gloucestershire. You will bring experience and understanding of the meaningful involvement of lived experience, working to address health inequities, using a data driven approach to prioritisation and focus of work.

Reporting to the Service Delivery Coach for the South West and Channel Islands, the Peer Support Officer will work with colleagues across the locality to deliver against engagement activity.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the involvement of people affected by stroke to prioritise our work and improve the experience of people affected by stroke
• Development of peer support groups across Gloucestershire
• Working with health care professionals, including clinicians, managers and leads
• Managing volunteers
• Build stroke communities to enable stroke survivors and their carers to rebuild their lives after stroke

You will be:

• Data driven
• Able to work independently, prioritise activity and focus to increase impact and reach
• Willing to travel
• Experimental and willing to learn
• Dependable
• A team player

This role requires travel across Gloucestershire as well as occasional travel across the South West locality. Candidates must be able to demonstrate how they can meet this requirement of the role

To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.

Please click here to view the role profile.

To apply please click here. Please submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident scheme, please indicate this in your supporting statement when applying for the role.

Closing Date: 4 October 2026 | Interview Date: 13 and 14 October 2026

Please note all roles close at midnight

Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.