Band 3 Peer Support Worker - Adult Eating Disorders

We are seeking a reflective and motivated Peer Support Worker to join our Adult Eating Disorders Service. This role is grounded in lived experience and involves using your own recovery journey, or experience of supporting someone with an eating disorder, in a purposeful and boundaried way to offer hope, understanding and practical support to individuals accessing care. The post holder will support patients across the full eating disorder pathway, including outpatient treatment, inpatient admissions and transitions between services. The role is not limited to one team and requires the ability to work across service settings, Trust sites and community environments to promote continuity of care. You will work alongside multidisciplinary colleagues to support engagement, confidence, self-advocacy and reconnection with everyday life, contributing a valued peer perspective within a specialist eating disorders service., The Peer Support Worker will use their lived experience of recovery from an eating disorder, or of supporting someone with an eating disorder, to provide meaningful, boundaried peer support to individuals receiving care within the Adult Eating Disorders Service.

• Building supportive, trusting relationships with patients through shared understanding and lived experience
• Providing peer support to individuals admitted for inpatient treatment, including supporting engagement and maintaining hope during admission
• Supporting individuals as they move between inpatient and outpatient services, helping to maintain consistency and connection
• Encouraging self-advocacy, confidence and active involvement in recovery goals
• Supporting reconnection with meaningful activities, routines and community resources
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues and contributing a valued peer perspective within care discussions
• Maintaining clear boundaries, accurate documentation and escalating concerns appropriately in line with service procedures
The role plays an important part in strengthening a recovery-focused culture within a specialist eating disorders service, ensuring that lived experience remains central to the care provided.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) is one of the largest and most respected mental health trusts in the UK, providing a wide range of specialist services locally, nationally and internationally. Our Eating Disorders Service sits within a highly regarded clinical and academic environment, working in close partnership with King's College London and as part of King's Health Partners. This collaboration places us at the forefront of evidence-based practice, research and innovation in mental health care.