Do you want to use your brilliant people skills to change lives?
As a Peer Support Lead, you’ll be out in the community every day — meeting people, breaking down barriers, and bringing positive change. If you have passion and energy, can use your lived or learned experience to engage and support people, we want to hear from you!
You will:
- Plan and deliver outreach, engaging people who need support and help them find healthcare.
- Work with amazing partners in hostels, drug services, and the NHS.
- Run training and workshops about hepatitis C, HIV, and liver health.
- Do simple finger-prick blood tests
- Lead and inspire a team of lived-experience volunteers.
You’ll get full training, ongoing support, lots of great benefits, and a chance to make a real impact!
Roles will be based in North, West, South or East London. We will interview people as they apply.
Apply today! Send your application form to admin@hepctrust.org.uk
We value creativity, innovation, and lived experience at the heart of everything we do, and we strongly encourage applications from people with lived experience similar to the people we work with – that might be of drug use, the criminal justice system, homelessness, hepatitis C, liver disease or other lived experience.
The Hepatitis C Trust runs national projects where peers draw on their lived experience of drug use and hepatitis C to support others. We are now recruiting for a role to join our Bristol & Severn team for a fixed term of 12 months.
As part of an experienced team, this role will promote hepatitis C awareness, blood borne virus testing and referral to treatment, for people living with hepatitis C. The role will support volunteer peers and increase the project’s reach to underserved communities. You’ll be providing vital harm reduction interventions including needle, syringe and naloxone provision across Bristol & Severn.
We value creativity, innovation, and compassion. We encourage applications from people with lived experience. Full support, coaching and training will be given.
If you would like to apply, please download the below documents and send the completed application form to administration@hepctrust.org.uk.
This is an exciting role working with the guidance of the Peer Coordinator and in partnership with the London Joint Working Group, local substance use services, the Harm Reduction Peer Support Lead will support the delivery of a peer led needle and syringe program (NSP) across the borough of Hackney at SWERVE the Harm Reduction Hub. This will include supporting delivery of the service and developing relationships and partnership working with local statutory and voluntary service providers who provide support and care for our potential client group.
The Female Harm Reduction Peer Support Lead will assist in the delivery of secondary NSP provision, naloxone distribution and educational workshops to communities where women are in need including outreach from the Hackney Harm Reduction Hub to for example sex workers, BAME communities, LGBTQI and people who suffer domestic and gender based violence, with a view to enhancing harm reduction provision across the area.
The role is only open to women, in accordance with the sex-based exemptions of the Equality Act 2010 pursuant to Schedule 9, Part 1.
Please download the documents below for the application form and more information about the project. Please send completed applications to admin@hepctrust.org.uk
Could you help us pave the way for a new lived experience workforce in the UK?
This is an exciting opportunity to lead a groundbreaking research project exploring what lived experience roles could do for health and care services and beyond, and how we can build this workforce.
You will lead a 2.5 year project delivered in collaboration with the University of Essex Business School, funded by Innovate UK as a Knowledge Transfer Partnership.
This is an exciting opportunity to design, co-ordinate and implement a new strategic approach to applying lived experience expertise in the UK.
The role is employed and managed by the University of Essex Business School and based at HCT’s offices in London SE1 (hybrid working available).
As a KTP Associate, benefits include
• A personal development budget of a total of £5,000 (exclusive of salary).
• Management training and mentoring by an Innovate UK KTP Adviser.
• An interesting and challenging role, with exposure to a variety of stakeholders.
• Full access to university resources to complete the project.
• World-leading Academic and Company project supervision, with project support by a dedicated, sector-leading KTP Office.
For more information and to apply visit the University of Essex job page here
To discuss the project, please contact Leila.Reid@hepctrust.org.uk of the University of Essex for employment or HR related queries
The Hepatitis C Trust delivers national peer-led projects where people with lived experience of injecting drug use and hepatitis C support others through testing, referral, and treatment. Our peers also provide targeted education and training within drug and alcohol, hostel, and homelessness services to raise awareness and improve access to care.
Do you have experience driving vans and travelling long distances? Have you worked with people affected by substance misuse? Have you lived with hepatitis C yourself or supported someone who has? We’re looking for a reliable, compassionate van driver with strong communication and organisational skills. We require a good standard of education, particularly in relation to working with vulnerable groups, and we value creativity and innovation in everything we do.
Working under the direction of the North East & Cumbria Peer Programme Manager (PPM), this role supports the delivery of the mobile clinic across the North East and Cumbria Operational Delivery Network. You will work closely with hepatitis C clinical teams, drug and alcohol services, and homeless service providers to facilitate daily mobile outreach clinics. A core part of the role involves supporting patients as they attend appointments with the nursing team on the van, as well as providing harm reduction advice and encouragement to engage in care.
The post also carries lead responsibility for driving the mobile clinic vehicle and will involve extensive travel across the region. The van is based in Newcastle and must be collected and returned there each day. A clean, current driving licence is preferred.
If you would like to apply for this role, please download and complete the below application form and send it to administration@hepctrust.org.uk