Solace Café Peer Connector

About the Role:

Contract:  12 months duration

Hours:  15 hours per week

Requirement:  Flexible hours, including weekends, evenings and nights (through a rota system). 

Location:  Limerick City

About Solace Café:

The aim of Solace Café is to provide an out-of-hours, friendly and supportive community-based adult crisis prevention and crisis response service, in the evenings and at weekends in a café style/non-clinical safe environment through social, peer support, crisis support and recovery-based support and services.  

Solace Café is a partnership initiative, managed by Limerick Mental Health Association  and funded by HSE Mental Health

The Role:

Peer Connectors are skilled individuals who have had personal lived experience of mental health issues/challenges or experience in supporting someone with mental health challenges, who can respond to human distress in a recovery-oriented way.  They are employed in a professional role to use their expertise and experience to inspire hope and recovery in others who are undergoing similar mental health experiences. The role of the Peer Connector is to support service users, family members/ significant others who are experiencing mental health challenges and who require help, connection and reassurance. 

Job Specifications:

Solace Cafe Peer Connector Full Job Description.docx

How to Apply:

Please apply with CV and a covering letter saying how can meet the role requirements and how you meet the person specification to info@limerickmentalhealth.ie

Application deadline: 17th July 2026, 5 pm

Interview schedule: It is anticipated that interviews will be held between 22nd July and 24th July 2026

Solace café is delivered in Limerick by Limerick Mental Health Association and funded by the HSE