Family Hubs/Start for Life Perinatal Mental Health Peer Support Worker (Sheffield)
20 hours per week (part time)
Salary range (£12698 – £13,655)
Fixed term to 31 March 2026
- Are you a parent?
- Do you understand the emotional and mental health challenges during pregnancy or after the birth of a baby?
- Have you personally experienced mental health and emotional challenges?
- Do you want to use your experience to help others?
- Are you able to connect with people and quickly establish rapport?
If this is you, Light Peer Support has an exciting opportunity to be part of the government’s national Family Hub/Start for Life programme, supporting families and children at the start of their lives.
You’ll be at the forefront of the Family Hub/Start for Life transformation programme. You will deliver locality based perinatal mental health (PNMH) peer support services, to support the transition to parenthood when parents face emotional and/or mental health difficulties.
About Light Peer Support
Light is a perinatal mental health peer support charity, set up in 2010, which has grown to support parents and their families across South Yorkshire. We’re led by our passion to support mental health during pregnancy and beyond for all families from all communities.
We work across South Yorkshire with families who are experiencing emotional and mental health difficulties in the perinatal period. Working in partnership across the statutory and voluntary sector to raise awareness of perinatal mental health difficulties and the support available.
We’re committed to providing services that embrace diversity to support equity in service access and promote equality of opportunity.
Perinatal Mental Health (PNMH) Peer Support Worker role
We’re delighted that Sheffield City Council, as part of the national Family Hub and Start for Life Programme, commissioned Light to provide a perinatal mental health peer support intervention.
We are able to support more people who are affected by emotional and mental health problems during pregnancy and the postnatal period, and/or are facing parent – infant relationship difficulties.
Integrated services are being delivered in Family Hubs, ensuring that perinatal mental health peer support is available locally right across Sheffield.
As a Peer Support Worker you will provide Perinatal Mental Health Peer Support to women and families who have self-referred or have been referred to Light. This will involve the delivery of group support and the offer of structured 1-1 support, responsive to the needs of service users. You’ll be comfortable raising awareness of Light’s services with professional groups and reaching out into communities to promote locality based peer support. You will be based either at a family hub or our main hub in the city centre but be able to travel across the Sheffield area.
We’re committed to staff well-being and development. You will be supported in your role by Light’s leadership team and a passionate team of Peer Support Workers working across South Yorkshire.
Equality at Light
Light is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all that we do and we welcome applications from people from all communities particularly under-represented groups. We’re aiming for a workforce that is truly representative of the communities we serve.
We’re a family friendly employer and open to discussion on flexible working subject to service needs.
How to apply
To find about more about this exciting opportunity and to apply, please download the below documents:
Job description/person specification and application form
JD Family Hub (FH) Start for Life (SfL) PNMH Peer Support Worker
Application-Form-Family-Hub-SfL-PNMH-Peer-Support-Worker-March 2025
Completed forms to be submitted to
recruitment@lightpeersupport.org.uk
Closing date:
9am Tuesday 22nd April 2025
If you would like to discuss this post further please text/call
Sarah Tully
PNMH Peer Support Service Manager
Telephone 07731 403995
All appointments are subject to a DBS check.
Applicants must have a Right to Work in the UK.