Bring trauma-informed practice and lived experience to peer support across Providence Health Care’s Urban Health and Substance Use services.
The Peer Support Worker provides day-to-day support to patients and families while helping healthcare providers advance harm reduction, cultural safety, and humility. You will work across opportunities including Addiction Medicine Consult Team and Road to Recovery’s Transitional Care Unit. The position also supports research, strategic planning, referral tracking, and service redevelopment through meaningful peer engagement.
Key Responsibilities: Deliver compassionate peer support across care settings
Help patients access overdose prevention and cultural spaces
Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare teams




Contribute to research centre and organizational initiatives
Organize workload and manage referral information
Requirements: Relevant lived or living experience, including substance use
Recognized Peer Support Training program
Related education, training, and experience equivalent
Knowledge of recovery and peer support principles
Crisis intervention, de-escalation, and conflict resolution skills
Use lived experience, recovery principles, and problem-solving skills to strengthen person-centered substance use care.

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📌 Trauma Informed Peer Support Worker (British Columbia)
🏢 Providence Healthcare
📍 British Columbia