25 Oct
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Canadian Mental Health Association - Windsor Essex County
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Ontario
25 Oct
Canadian Mental Health Association - Windsor Essex County
Ontario
Support Secure Beds clients through recovery-focused counselling, community resources, and residential assistance with CMHA-WECB. Flexible hours meet client and service needs.
As a Peer Support Worker, you will guide service users toward safety, self-sufficiency, and independent community living. The work draws on shared lived experience, emotional support, trauma-informed practice, and recovery principles. You will connect clients with mental health, addiction, housing, and community services.
Key Responsibilities: Provide life-supportive counselling and residential support
Build trusting relationships through shared lived experience
Recognize crises and connect clients with appropriate responses
Support goal plans, wellness plans, and housing referrals
Maintain confidential records and report client progress
Requirements: Personal lived experience with substance use, recovery, or mental illness
Two-year post-secondary diploma in social services or human sciences
One year recent experience supporting vulnerable individuals
Peer Support training and ASIST completion upon hire
Ontario driver’s license, reliable vehicle, and current insurance
Apply peer recovery principles, crisis awareness, and community resource knowledge while supporting Safe Beds clients through recovery.
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📌 Peer Support Worker Safe Beds (Ontario)
🏢 Canadian Mental Health Association - Windsor Essex County
📍 Ontario