Vacant Position

Type: Full-Time

Location: Brantford, ON

Salary: Starting at $24.25 per hour.

Positions: 1

Posted: August 20, 2026

Expires: August 31, 2026

Hours of Work: Full Time – Sunday-Thursday 2:30pm-10:00pm.

Duties
We are recruiting for a Peer Support Specialist. This role is a vital part of our Withdrawal Management and Treatment Services program. As a Peer Support Specialist, you will be supporting individuals aged 16+ experiencing substance use and concurrent mental health challenges by drawing on your own lived or living experience of recovery. Peer Support Specialists are not counsellors. Their role is grounded in shared lived experience — building connection, offering encouragement, and helping others feel hopeful about recovery. This position is based within our Withdrawal Management and Treatment programs, where you will support clients as they begin their recovery journey by fostering connection, comfort, and engagement within the program. Peer Support Specialists also collaborate with peers across the agency and participate in SOAR’s broader peer support initiatives, contributing to the development and growth of peer programming across services.

What You’ll Do

Build supportive relationships with clients by drawing on and appropriately sharing your lived or living experience of recovery

Offer connection, encouragement, and hope to individuals navigating substance use and concurrent mental health challenges

Share recovery insights and coping strategies to encourage hope and connection

Facilitate peer-led groups

Support clients in identifying personal goals and steps toward recovery and independence





Work collaboratively with staff while bringing a peer perspective to theinterdisciplinary team

Maintain professional boundaries within the peer role and participate in agency-wide peer initiatives

Qualifications
What You’ll Bring

Comfort identifying as a person with lived or living experience of substanceuse and/or mental health recovery and using that experience in a peer support role

Ability to act as a positive recovery role model while respecting the individual paths of others

Understanding peer support principles

College diploma or certificate in any field

Strong communication and relationship-building skills

Comfort facilitating conversations and peer-led groups

Experience with Microsoft Office and electronic databases

Full G level drivers license

Ability to work in environments where exposure to direct and vicarious trauma may occur

Eligibility

Eligible to work in Canada

Vacant Position

Benefits

Salary: Starting at $24.25 per hour.

Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and travel insurance, with options fully paid for Full Time staff.

Time off: 3 weeks’ vacation, 60 hours of personal leave, and 15 hours of wellness time (pro-rated first year).

Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for staff and their families.





RSP/TFSA matching for eligible staff.

A supportive, values-driven workplace that prioritizes your well-being.

Our Commitment to Job Seekers
SOAR Community Services is committed to implementing the Calls to Action framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We acknowledge that we live and work on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wyandot, the Haudenosaunee, and some of the Ojibwa Nation. The territory is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. We are grateful to have the chance to work in this community, on this territory. We also acknowledge that the settler population has been able to benefit from this beautiful land. We are all treaty members and will strive to act in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and center their voices.

SOAR Community Services is committed to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within our workplace and across the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals with lived and living experience and from members of equity-deserving groups, including Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and persons with disabilities. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. If you require accommodations as part of the hiring process, please let us know so that we may arrange for their provision

Personal information submitted will only be used for the purposes of the competition in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

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📌 Full Time Peer Support Specialist (Ontario)
🏢 Soar Community Services
📍 Ontario