Support Protected 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.