Join our team: Team Leader and Peer Mentors (x2) – Drug and Alcohol Mentoring Programme

Join us and lead an innovative programme that will help transform lives across 9 London boroughs

Are you an inspiring leader who is passionate about helping people recovering from addition to overcome barriers and fulfil their potential?

We have secured funding from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to deliver an innovative new Peer Mentoring Programme across our sub-region. We're looking for a Team Leader and two peer mentors with lived experience to help shape and deliver this exciting programme.

This is a unique opportunity to join a service that sits at the intersection of recovery, health and employment support, helping people who are often furthest from the labour market take positive steps towards a brighter future.

About the Team Leader role:

• Job reference: RQ002626
• Application closing date: 12/10/2026 (extended)
• Location: Hybrid – Home/ Lynton House, Ilford, with travel across the Local London sub-region
• Salary: £52,194.00 - £55,323.00 per annum
• Role type: full-time, fixed term contract until March 2029.

As a Team Leader, you will lead and support a team of Peer Mentors with lived experience of recovery from drug and/or alcohol dependency.

You'll create a supportive, reflective and inclusive environment where Peer Mentors can use their lived experience safely and effectively to support residents on their own recovery and employment journeys.

Alongside leading and developing your team, you'll drive programme performance, build strong local partnerships, oversee reporting and assurance requirements, and support the ongoing evaluation and development of the programme.

About the 2x Peer Mentor roles:

• Job reference: RQ002625
• Application closing date: 12/10/2026 (extended)
• Location: Hybrid – Home/ Lynton House, Ilford, with travel across the Local London sub-region
• Salary: £43,680 - £45,750 per annum
• Role type: full-time, fixed term contract until March 2029.

As a Peer Mentor, you will use your lived experience of recovery to build trusted, non-judgemental relationships with residents facing multiple and complex challenges. Through one-to-one support, you will help people build confidence, access services, achieve personal goals and take positive steps towards recovery, independence and employment.

Working alongside Jobcentre Plus, treatment providers, local authorities, health services and community organisations, you will play an important role in creating a joined-up support network that helps residents achieve lasting change.

This is a unique opportunity to use your experience to inspire others, while developing your own skills and career within an innovative programme that sits at the intersection of recovery, health and employment support.

Why join us

This is a rare opportunity to help shape an innovative new programme from day one.

You'll be joining an ambitious and collaborative organisation with a strong track record of delivering successful employment and skills programmes across London.

Working alongside nine boroughs, Jobcentre Plus, health partners and voluntary sector organisations, you'll be part of a team committed to reducing inequalities, improving outcomes and creating opportunities for residents and communities.

Discover more about us: Local.london

Read more about our Peer Mentoring programme.

How to apply

If you're looking for an opportunity to lead an innovative programme, develop a lived-experience workforce and help transform lives across Local London, we'd love to hear from you.

To apply, please complete the online application form and attach your CV and a covering letter addressing how you meet the criteria for the role as stated in the person specification.

You will be employed by London Borough of Redbridge (on Local London’s behalf).