Qualifications.

Advance your professional practice

with accredited qualifications in mental health and peer support.
Our Level 2 and Level 4 peer support programmes are designed to give you the skills to make a difference, with an engaging and tailored learning experience.

Developed by peer support professionals for peer support professionals.

Peer Support in Mental Health

Level 4, 30 credit module.

Delivered over 15 weeks online or face-to-face.

Combining theoretical, practical and reflective study; this Level 4 programme aims to maximise your knowledge, skills and abilities and to develop your peer support skills in order that you can successfully work as a peer support worker in mental health services.

The programme has been designed by CAPITAL Charity and accredited by AQA and Middlesex University as a stand-alone module of 30 credits at Level 4.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

Delivered by experienced peer workers/trainers
Handbook and resources supplied
Five full day lessons over consecutive weeks, designated themes are:

- The Principles of Peer Support
- Recovery
- Assertiveness and Communication
- Boundaries, Confidentiality, and Safeguarding
- The Peer Supporter’s Toolkit

Three written submissions, including a reflective case study
A three hour peer support observation
Five 1-2-1 tutorials and five taught tutorials, covering topics such as:

- Academic writing and referencing
- Managing Mental Health Challenges Whilst Studying
- Peer Support Career Planning

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Learners will need to have the following in order to qualify for application:

  • GCSE English and Maths at a pass grade/equivalent

  • At least two years experience in a peer support role, not necessarily in mental health

  • Lived experience of mental health challenges

  • Be working or volunteering currently in a peer support role

Start date for our next online programme: Spring 2026

To register your interest in attendance please click the button below.

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  • "As peer supporters at CAPITAL, we use our training, lived experience and our own mental health journey to support people who have been hospitalised because of their mental health."

    CAPITAL peer worker

  • "“Each person I encounter... I can become a familiar face... offer a confidential ear— for some who have no visitors, it is a valuable exchange"

    CAPITAL peer worker

  • “CAPITAL's support… helped me feel centred and calm—it’s more effective than any medication I’ve had here.”

    Hospital in-patient

  • “Over time, I can see changes in the individual, and am happy to witness their growth in confidence.”

    CAPITAL peer worker

  • “It gave me hope that I could work again.”

    CAPITAL peer worker

Peer Support in Mental Health

Level 2 equivalent

Details to be confirmed

We will be delivering an un-accredited, easy to access, low cost Level 2 equivalent training programme in mental health peer support in 2026.

Places will be limited, so if you are interested in being put on our waiting list/and or knowing more, please contact us today via the button below.

Further details will be sent out once available.

Make an enquiry

Learners will need to have the following in order to qualify for application:

  • At least a year’s experience in a peer support role, not necessarily in mental health

  • Lived experience of mental health challenges

  • A desire to develop a career in peer support

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“If no peer support exists in the future, in-patient life will lose some of its richness…
Peer support workers offer friendship, understanding, and hope.”

Hospital ward staff