
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 and accredited by 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
Three written essays, 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
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: Monday September 22nd 2025
Cost: £X per person.
* An early bird discount of 15% will be applied to all learners who successfully apply before August 1st.
Peer Support in Mental Health
Level 2 equivalent
Details to be confirmed
We are planning to deliver an un-accredited, easy to access, low cost, Level 2 equivalent training programme in mental health peer support, starting at the end of 2025.
Places will be limited, so if you are interested in being put on our waiting list, please contact us today via the button below.
Further details will be sent out once available.
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
Wish to develop a career in peer support

“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