25 Oct
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Canadian Mental Health Association - Windsor Essex County
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Windsor
25 Oct
Canadian Mental Health Association - Windsor Essex County
Windsor
Support Safe Beds clients through recovery-focused counselling, community resources, and residential assistance with CMHA-WECB. Flexible schedule 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.
📌 Peer Support Worker Safe Beds (Windsor)
🏢 Canadian Mental Health Association - Windsor Essex County
📍 Windsor